Patricia Routledge Quotes

I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.

I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.

Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I'd have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn't start a family because that's not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.

At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet.

It's not so much that I ever declared: 'I will never have children.' I just never found the right man to settle down with, so it didn't happen.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

I don't regret doing 'The Living Daylights'. If I hadn't done Bond, I wouldn't have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.

I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.

I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.

I've never been married, and I have no regrets about not starting my own family. I come from a large one, so there are so many people around all the time. I've been very happy, but I've never gotten married. That's about the size of it. I would have been a good father because I've been a father to my brothers' and sisters' children.

The funny thing is that I've known since I was 7 years old that I was never going to have kids. I always imagined myself as this worldly, traveling gypsy lady.

I never set out to get married and the way things have worked out I never have.

I didn't think I would ever get married, and that was a choice.

I always thought, as I was growing up, that I'd be married with children. That hasn't happened.

I never wanted to get married. I never thought that was in my cards. I always thought I was just going to be an independent woman my entire life. Hopefully having a partner but never getting married.

I am not the kind of person who won't get married because of my career, because there was nothing great happening in my career anyway.

When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married!