Marion Cotillard Quotes

I'm a mom first.

Just because you are a mom doesn't mean whoever you were before is gone. You can bring it back.

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

A career is a career, but you're a mother until you die.

I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.

As soon as I became a mom, my birthday stopped having any meaning whatsoever.

Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won't crumble around me.

You can't keep doing the same things when you get married and have a family. You have to slow down. You have to be responsible.

As a mom, my priorities have changed.

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

Children change you. They really do.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Having children really changes your priorities.

For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.

The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first.

Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.

Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

It is not always possible or even right for a man to make his wife number one in his life. This is due to the nature of his life. His number one responsibility is to provide the living.

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

Comfort and growth cannot coexist.