Claire Foy Quotes

The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

I try to be as full-time mommy as possible and also full-time working woman. That is the example I grew up with. Working mommy but also very present.

It was never something that I thought put me in a good light, that I was a working mom.

I work hard and try to combine a demanding career with motherhood.

I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.

I think it's possible to be a great mother and have a successful career. I like that more women are doing this.

I'm trying to have a family and a career.

When I hear that a project takes place out of town, the material better be terrific, and it has to come at the right time. My kids are getting older, so it's getting easier, but being a mother - it's a difficult thing to juggle.

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.

On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

I'm happy with the idea of being a mum first and an actress second - I'm perfectly content for people to think of me as a stay-at-home mum, rather than an actress, if that is their perception.

To have or not to have kids, when to have them, and whether we working women can 'have it all' has been debated, discussed, and examined since the washing machine and the TV dinner began to free up many mothers to even consider leaving the home as a viable option.

You don't have to wait for your career to take off to become a mum: that's kind of what I want to show. Becoming a mum made me even more driven, and I think it doesn't stop your career - it just boosts it. It makes you well-organised, and with a little bit of sacrifice, of course you can do it all.

The phrase 'working mum' makes me nervous.

I have been a working mom as long as I've been a mom.

I have the greatest respect for working mothers.

I stand here as the mother of three children, who knows firsthand how difficult it can be to combine family and a career.