Julianne Moore Quotes

Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

If I want to support my family and my crew, we have to be on the road, and that's really tiring.

My kids were completely out of control, while I was working fifteen hours a day plus weekends. I screamed a lot, something I'm not particularly proud of, but it was that or firearms.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.

I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

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

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes.

I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.

I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.

There isn't a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there's the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn't, I still did it all.

As the only mother on this hearing panel, I think you should go home and get some rest.

When the campaign ends, and you are home, the alarm clock is the same, but you don't know where to start after it goes off: expense reports, new stories, the crusted paint cans that have to go to the hazardous-waste disposal site, the wiper blade on the Honda that has gone droopy.

When you're trying to be a parent and a businessperson at the same time, that is the most stressful thing you could do.

How hard or easy it is to raise kids, especially while working, is a big part of people's well-being everywhere.

I have to look after my life, my kids, their school, their doctor, my house, my phone and electric bills.

I don't get to make many choices in my life as a single parent.

As moms, we have so much on our plates. We're busy, and our family depends on us for a lot of things.

Housework can kill you if done right.

I have to take care of the house, and the dogs, and the Macondo Board meetings, all those e-mails, the letters that are going to fans. And you've got to pay bills. These things eat up your time. You have to prepare and pack to go on that trip. Then when you come back you have to file all that stuff, answer all that mail, and that's not even washing the clothes or any of that. So it takes as many days as I've been away to come back to normal and to get quiet.

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!