Lesley Manville Quotes

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 gave my all to my career and later to my marriage and motherhood.

I have been devoted to my son, and there have been lots of jobs in the past that I haven't done because I didn't want to be away from him.

I'm doing everything in my power to be a great mother. I wish I could be with her throughout the day, because I'm always working, but I make sure that whether it's the morning or nighttime, I make it extra special.

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.

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

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 rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.

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 just don't want to miss anything in the lives of my children while they are still young. It's why I don't audition for leading roles at all and why I say no to some of the supporting roles that I do get offered.

I'm just the sister of the future Prince, and my children come first. I work my schedule around them.

I don't neglect my kids. They are my priority. They come on shoots.

If someone would ask me to choose between TV and films, I would go for TV. I am content with it. Also, I have a family and a son to look after. A mother needs to be there with the child.

I'm sure all the mothers out there can relate when I say family is priority number one.

Away from football, it is just family. I try to spend time with my kids - I have to spend a lot of time away, so every time I am at home, I like to spend time with them.

I always find time for my mother.

It is about priorities in life and for me, ever since I have been a mom, my family and kid have been my first priority.

Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?