Liv Tyler Quotes

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I'm fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don't have to live two separate lives.

I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family.

When you're with your family you're with them and when you're working you're doing that. I definitely try to separate the time when I'm working and when I have my personal time.

Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.

You can have more than one career, but you only have one family.

All I do is work and be with my family.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.

For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life.

I've got this great home life I want to keep living, and I don't want to neglect it.

I always wanted to have a really successful career, but I always wanted to be a mom, too.

I've found that it is possible to have balance between your job and your family, that there are coaches out there who are doing it.

I am all for career, whether pre- or post-marriage.

I try to balance work and family. As long as I'm able physically and mentally to do it, I will.

Never bite off so much in your job that you can't spend a lot of time with your family.

When you're working and you're busy and you're successful, no matter what, something suffers, whether it's your relationship with your mother, your relationship with your whole family. Certain things suffer and take the back burner, not because they're on the back burner in your heart but because the world just moves so quickly. A lot of people, when they're chasing their dreams, they have to leave people they love.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.'

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

I have two beautiful children, a wife who loves me very much and who I love - and my career is going well, too.