Michelle Pfeiffer Quotes

I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.

It's hard to balance work and family.

I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.

When I was working actively, I used to be in the studios for 12 hours. I didn't have any time for my family.

I am always exhausted; I am always trying to find more time to be with my family, which is why they travel with me so much.

I am constantly hustling and finding new things. You try to manage so you don't look back and see huge gaps of time that you missed with your family.

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

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

I like to work - I probably work too much.

You're on set for 15 hours, and then you go home and make sure you're posting the right stuff on social media, and then you answer your e-mails. It never stops.

I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

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

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.

My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well, as there's already enough producers.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

I really have to pace myself. I work about 75 hours a week.

In 1980, after 10 years at 'The Times,' I was at a crossroads in my personal life. I loved my family, but I was also so obsessive about my work that I found myself devoting more and more time to it. I wanted to be everywhere there was a good story, and that meant I had to choose between that and being with the family on important days.

I guess I am working pretty much all the time.

There's 24 hours in a day, and I'm working most of them.

If you are working or a veteran or a parent, time is often the most precious commodity.