Regina King Quotes

I left 'Coronation Street' so I could spend more time with the kids because it was difficult getting a work life balance.

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

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

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 am a hands-on mother, so I take long gaps between films.

I want time for my career, my kids, and my partner.

I would love to coach and teach people about football. It's just that the time constraints are so tough to coach, especially when you have seven kids and they are growing up. I'm just in too blessed of a situation to spend from five in the morning until 12 at night coaching and not watching my kids grow up.

I look at my kids and I feel I'm at the precipice of this job, like just kind of tipping over the other side. I'm very conscious of time I guess is what I want to say, and I want to be there as long as I can with my kids, and I also want to make sure I do all the things that are important to me.

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

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

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 do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.

I quit 'Magnum' to have a family. It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard to have balance, and this ranch has helped me do that.

When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

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

I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all.

I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.

The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.