Role Shift Quotes

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

I'm always fascinated by the theme of children who parent the adults.

I think at some point I am going to throw in the belt and decide to stick behind the camera.

I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.

I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where it’s… there’s good sides and there’s bad sides…I wouldn't kind of turn the clock back and take another direction.

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career.

I once was the walrus, now I'm John.

I'm happy with the idea of being a mum first and an actress second - I'm perfectly content for people to think of me as a stay-at-home mum, rather than an actress, if that is their perception.

I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.

When you have a child you're no longer the star of the movie.

Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.

Whenever I'm on the field, I'm another guy.

Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.

Robb Stark was a young man not expecting anything, thinking his life is going to be on one path, and then he's pushed. More weight and responsibility get put onto him; more demands are made of him. For me, as an actor, there are parallels to that.

I've been a loud voice as a Democratic leader for years, but that's not my job now. My job is to represent fishermen and farmers - everyone.

The minute I had him, my son, I realized that I had to just time-manage in a way that I never had to before.

Once you are a parent, everything takes a back seat. It ceases to be a role. It is a reality. Once I had Ranveer, I realised that I was cracking under the pressure and that I cannot be a superwoman. I had to open myself to learning.

It was hard to find that transition to adult roles.

It's a fact that within the space of a few decades, women have achieved a massive shift in the role they play - in the way they act in public, and in the way they have conquered areas of the working world that were until recently considered a man's domain.

In every country women were dramatically empowered to fill the places of millions of absent men.