New Priorities Quotes

After I had my baby, I reprioritized my life in general. I really wanted to play characters that gave me a different kind of fulfillment. That is a difficult thing to find, especially as an actress.

It's just so wonderful to have someone in the house like a child to turn your attention to. It's not about you anymore, it's about this lovely little human being.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.

Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life really is and what few things there really are to worry about. And everything else can go by the wayside.

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

It's been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can't believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything.

Having a son makes everything so much more easy. You don't worry about golf as much. You don't worry about anything as much. The focus is more on him.

When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

~As a working mother high heels don't really fit into my life anymore - but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.~

Being a mother changes perspective. Things that were once really important, the sole focus of your life, aren't the same.

I miss singing very, very much, but the best thing is I have never been busier.

I think being a mom changed me, and now it's not just about what I want to do and what's sort of interesting, but what I absolutely have to do.

Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It's so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.

In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.

I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother.

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.