Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

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.

I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

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.

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.

I love my job and I love my children. It's really about figuring out your schedules and getting everything down that you need to do and sticking to your plan.

I'm a full-time dad; I'm a part-time actor.

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

I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.

I would love to do more family comedy.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

My first priority is time with my family.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key.

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.

I always feel like I want more time with my kids. But I reject the notion that you can't have it all. I think you can: just not necessarily in abundance.

I like to have fun, but I don't have a lot of time for myself. I do have eight kids!

I have two full-time jobs: one of a mother and the other of an actor. Both are equally important, and that's why I'm busy 24x7.