Elisabeth Hasselbeck Quotes

I'm a single father, I don't like to be away from my son. So I'll go out, make a film and come back. Repeat. And it's worked out very well for the last 11 years.

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.

My family is my career.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.

I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance.

I'm married to my kids and my career.

When push comes to shove, my children always come first, and I am lucky that I work in an environment that respects that.

My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancing anything. My husband and my kids absolutely come first, so work is just something where I figure out where it will fit.

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.

I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.

I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

Obviously, my daughter's my priority, so if you want to have plans with me and then my daughter calls, then I'm going to have to go with her.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

I would never put my job before my family.

Any job I choose has to work with my schedule with my kids. I don't want to miss any of my time with them.

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

Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.

Throughout my career, no matter what I've done or what decision I've made, I've made it with my family first. My priority was taking care of my family while I was taking care of business.

TaskRabbit is really my first baby. So balancing the second child is something I've tackled, but I'm really passionate about what I do, and then I'm passionate about coming home and putting my baby to bed.

I have a kid and a husband and my family, and it's important to live the real life. I don't want to offer my whole life to cinema. It's only cinema.

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.