What Michelle Pfeiffer Has Said About Being a Mom, Grandma

After a while, Pfeiffer and Kelley decided to wander away from Los Angeles and relocate their family to Northern California—with her stepping away from making movies for almost five years around the early to mid-aughts.
“Look, it’s challenging no matter where you raise kids,” the 68-year-old shared on The Skinny Confidential in 2023. “I didn’t set out to stop working. It wasn’t my plan, but I became so difficult in terms of my prerequisites in terms of, ‘Well, where does it shoot? How long does it shoot? What time of year does it shoot? Can I bring the kids? Is it during the school year?’ It was just too difficult to hire me honestly, and I was OK with that.”
In fact, Pfeiffer noted it was her children who encouraged her to return to acting.
“‘Mom, are you ever going to go back to work?'” she remembered them asking. “I said, ‘What do you mean? Isn’t it great that I’m home?’ And they’re like, ‘Well, you know.’ And they actually love to travel because they grew up traveling.”