Wendy E. Long Quotes

I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.

I have dedicated myself to development of the state and hardly get time to spend with my family.

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.

A career is a career, but you're a mother until you die.

I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.

Right now, I think I have time to be three things, in no particular order: a father, a husband, and a filmmaker. That's why I don't go out - I have no space for it. I feel like one of those main things would suffer.

I have worked so hard since I was 15 years old, all because I wanted to be a mom.

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.

I'm a mom first.

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong.

I am an actor, but my most important job is provider of my family.

As a mom, that's at the forefront of everything in my mind, so I'm always trying to balance, whether it's bringing Violet to work or, the second I am done working, getting home to her.

My kids and I are spending time together. And we're enjoying that. Family is important; I was gone a lot in the 20 years of public service.

The mother who stays home instead of working sacrifices her aspirations and career to ensure that her child is well taken care of.

My mother, oddly enough, really wanted to pursue a career in law, but at the time, she had children and was working as a teacher.

I hope that the little sacrifices that I make in my life - being away from my daughter, my husband and I not seeing each other as much - I hope it does inspire young girls to realize they can be whatever they want in this life.

I'm really grateful for my mom. And my mom always raised me being a single mother. Being a single mother, a lot of stress comes with that. You gotta work, you gotta come home and do everything.

I felt the pressure to let go of music. I was like, 'It's just a hobby. It's just a dream I'm hanging on to, and my kids don't deserve having me have trouble taking care of them.'

I've always put everybody else's child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.