Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.
I think part of maturity as an actress comes from their experience in getting married and having children.
Having children really changes your priorities.
Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.
I didn't get round to having children until I was 35, and then I wasn't around very much.
Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!
Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.
I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that.
The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.
I have a fantastic team, and it's much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit.
Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.
Restaurants are like having children: it's fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.
I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.
Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.
Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.
I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.
