Malin Akerman Quotes

Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children, but I don't know what I did with it and I didn't appreciate it. But it's such a terrific trade-off. I don't have time to get a pedicure, but I sure am happy. Who cares if your feet look bad?

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can't do that anymore.

I was writing a third novel when my kids arrived. And I looked at that book about whether these two people would get together, and I thought, 'I don't care! I've got kids!'

Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.

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

The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

Before, I would spend all my hours at training, come home, sleep, eat, watch football, sleep, and go back to training the next day. Now I do the school run, train, pick up my daughter. I am living in the real world. I am a father now. That has given me more satisfaction than football.

Our ideas of what our priorities are shift as we come face-to-face with some of the struggles.

I'm just a guy that is basically depending on my responsibility skills. I'm really responsible with my children and my wife and my family life. Things have changed with me. I'm not a night person anymore. I've got too many responsibilities to play.

The difference when you have kids comes up when someone wants to meet you out after 9:30 at night. You consider that giant sacrifice. You're like, "Do I do this? Do I stay out until 10:30 and be angry, all of tomorrow?

For me having kids, it doesn't clip your wings, it gives you a different type of adventure to take, like you say you've got different priorities.

It's very rare that stand-up comics have kids, because once they do, they stop doing stand-up.

Before kids, I was really going to the limit. Afterwards, I was approaching the limit but then maybe turning around.

Parenting put music in the right place for me. Touring was always the first priority before, but it isn't any more. And, paradoxically, that has made my ability to make music much easier.

I've got a family now, which matures you.

My early comics are really reflective of being kind of a befuddled, single loser in the Bay Area, and I think having kids has been by far the most profound impact on me as a person and as an artist.

My life is divided up into before I had kids and after.

Things change; your priorities change in life. So I'd never think of riding 100 miles on Christmas Day now, because I've got two kids, and it's selfish.

My mindset at this stage, especially after having a daughter... it's just changed my whole outlook.

When you become a parent, obviously it changes your life in so many ways.