Questlove Quotes

It's not easy to have it all. Frankly, you know, you have to give as much to the career that the career requires and, at the same time, you have to give as much to the family as the attention that's required.

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

You are on the road so much when on the main roster that you don't have time for anything else. But wrestling will always be a huge passion for me.

It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

It is the nature of the business that you work unsociable, unpredictable hours and can get called away at a moment's notice to somewhere on the other side of the world. This can put a strain on home and personal life.

I feel like it does get busier professionally, but personally, I think I choose how I spend my time more carefully, so it balances it out in that sense.

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.

When the children were little, I'd fly into L.A. for a specific work project, but then I'd leave again, and when I was home, I wouldn't even read a script.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

This is one of the hardest industries to be married.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.

Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there's just nothing left after being a mom, professor, and writer. I used to be big into rock climbing. No more. A lot falls by the wayside.

When I go back to France now I spend all the my time with press and sponsors. I do not have a lot of time to spend at home with my family.

I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.

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.

There's sacrifice involved. Either you're going to work a lot and not get to spend time with your kid, or you're going to spend a ton of time with your kid, and you're sacrificing your career.

I have two kids, a career, and a man that takes a lot of my attention and time.

It's a sacrifice for me. It's not really something I want to do. I don't love the idea of being a U.S. senator; I love the idea of being a mother.

I don't have much of a personal life.

My kids and I are spending time together. And we're enjoying that. Family is important; I was gone a lot in the 20 years of public service.