Samantha Bond Quotes

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

There have been a lot of times when work and parenting conflicted for me. Every day.

It's hard to kind of marry your personal life with the theater. It always works so well for my life, and then I had kids, and the thought of missing putting them to bed is a tough one for me. You know, I'm there a lot for them.

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

When Kelly was born, I thought seriously about retirement. But I wanted to see if it was possible to mix being a mother with tennis and the two combined very well.

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

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

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

I think the main thing that I've learned while working on 'Let's Stay Together' is how to balance mommyhood and working.

At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

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

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.'

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.

It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.

I want to work, but the balance to find between working and being a mom is challenging.

One thing I always want to clear up was the notion that I 'took time off to have a baby.' A lot people leapt to that conclusion because becoming a parent happened to coincide with film roles tapering off.

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

I think, as a working mother, what is more challenging for me is that I get to balance both work and home and prioritise my kid's life.

Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.

I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.