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I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

— Karen Allen

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

— Zac Brown

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.

— Kiki Dee

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

— Josie Bissett

I have career ADD, he says. I have career dissatisfaction. Even as a young kid, I'd have that. I'd get really passionate about something and then I'd realize, 'I don't want to do that!

— Mark Consuelos

There have definitely been ebbs and flows in my career, but, you know, part of the reason is that I'm a mom. I have a five-year-old daughter. She really factors into my choices, and I never want to go too long without seeing her.

— Sandrine Holt

I always wanted kids but I always thought I'd have kids later on in my life, maybe when I turn 30. I really wanted to focus on my career, but you meet the right person and your whole world changes.

— Kristin Cavallari

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

— Boris Kodjoe

Once we decided not to get pregnant, I snapped back into work mode, and now I have just been really enjoying my career.

— Aisha Tyler

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will!

— Jennifer Aniston

I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.

— Luke Wilson