Leslie Mann Quotes

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.

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

I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.

I have said a lot that it's very important to me to make time for my child and make her the priority. I made sacrifices so that I'm around and not traveling for that.

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.

Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.

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

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

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

If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.

I'm a good dad and a fair husband and I work quite a bit. That takes up a fair amount of time.

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 very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

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

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

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.

It's important to me that I don't spend too much time away from the family. I try to pick jobs that will keep me as close to home as possible or, if I have to go far away, for as little time as possible.

Being able to stay home with my children is what I prefer.

I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children.

To me, the special parts of the day - and also the ones that fit with a full-time job - are bedtime and wake-up time. So I try really hard to be there for my kids as many of those nights and mornings as I can.