Born Quote by Winona Ryder

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

— Sade Adu

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

— Natasha Leggero

Nothing has ever come close to my experience of being a mother. I have an amazing relationship with my kids.

— Kirstie Alley

I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life…

— Andrea Riseborough

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

— Julie Walters

Whether you're playing a mom on-screen or you're in a car pool lane driving your child to school in the morning, there are similarities…

— Nia Long

Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly…

— Tricia Helfer

As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity…

— Amy Bloom

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

— Meryl Streep

I think I feel like a kid myself, so it's quite a scary thought having kids. I don't think I'm ever not going to…

— Jesy Nelson

When you've had kids it gives you confidence - you think, 'I'm a mum. I'm not scared. If I can raise a human being,…

— Emma Willis

For a long time I didn't believe that I couldn't become a mother. But when I finally came to terms with it, then I…

— Shabana Azmi