Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

A career is a career, but you're a mother until you die.

All I am is a writer and a mom.

I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor.

My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.

Work has been the central column for most of my life; it has always been my identity.

I want to be taken seriously as an actress.

My newspaper job … is my identity.

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.

I act, but I am a mother first and wife second.

The core of my career is my teaching and my writing.

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.

I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.

My two careers have been very service-oriented.

I'm a business guy. I'm not a politician.

I'm an entrepreneur. This is my life. This my career. This the way I eat.

A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.

I can't imagine doing anything except acting.

Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.

Acting is my passion. I can't see myself doing anything else.

I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.

I'm not a politician; I'm a journalist.

I'm a singer, and I never lost sight of that.