Maria das Gracas Silva Foster Quotes

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

I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

From a very young age, I had this idea that if you are very successful in your career, and you're giving all of your attention to that, then your family life... possibly will not flourish as it might.

I used to say during my career that the biggest gift was having my children.

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.

I am lucky in that I love what I do, but it can still be hard to be away from the kids for long lengths of time. At the end of the day, all I want is to be with my kids, but it's worth it to create a future for my family.

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

I love what I do, I can't imagine doing anything else, but ultimately, my goal is to be happy and have a family. That's my life.

The truth is that I love working. I love my kids. But I don't view one as evil and the other as good. I need to work to be a happy person, to be a good parent.

We don't have very many nights out on our own, and by most people's standards we don't have much of a social life. But for us the compromise works, and I think the best thing I ever did was to have a family.

It helps to have a happy home life to keep up alongside your career.

At the 'Vanity Fair' New Establishment Summit, I asked Alibaba CEO Mike Evans - who has nine kids! - how he does it, as well as Didi President Jean Liu, a mother of three. Evans said he couldn't do work well without the support of his family and vice versa.

I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.

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

I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

The best part of my life is having my kids.

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

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.

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

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.

The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.