Nia Long Quotes

I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I've been doing that since I had kids. I did that when I was at Google, I did that here, and I would say it's not until the last year, two years, that I'm brave enough to talk about it publicly. Now I certainly wouldn't lie, but I wasn't running around giving speeches on it." "...there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure.

In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.

I don't like to mix my personal and professional life. Both are different, and I don't mix it.

I always break it down I am three different people. I'm Troy Deeney the footballer, I'm daddy who the kids get to see and I'm Troy which a few of my mates get to see.

I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

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

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

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

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

My children come first and the career comes in around that.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.