Ciara Quotes

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

It is no small thing that the juiciest and most complicated roles of my life have come post-having two children.

Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

When I hear that a project takes place out of town, the material better be terrific, and it has to come at the right time. My kids are getting older, so it's getting easier, but being a mother - it's a difficult thing to juggle.

Any job I choose has to work with my schedule with my kids. I don't want to miss any of my time with them.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn't divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

I took some time out for life.

I love my job and I love my children. It's really about figuring out your schedules and getting everything down that you need to do and sticking to your plan.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.

You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.

Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key.

I really wanted to be a mom. I didn't want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalized with fatigue.

I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be a mother who is there for your child, then you have to make sure that when you do spend time together, you're really there for them.

Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'

What I want in my career is different to what I wanted when I was 21. It's got to be something that keeps my family together, that allows me to be present in their lives.