Ali Landry Quotes

Sometimes when you are a great mom, you're not so great at your job. And then when you're good at your job, you're not so great of a mom or a good wife. It's a dance that never stops. But it's beautiful.

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

I think all parents have a double life.

How am I supposed to be a mom to two kids, a wife and do a show every night? It's impossible!

I'm just a normal mother with the same struggles as any other mother who's trying to do everything at once and trying to be a wife and maintain a relationship. There's absolutely nothing perfect about my life, but I just try hard.

Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn't look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn't have time.

From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.

I'm a woman trying to balance family, work and friends like so many others out there.

I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard.

The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.

My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.

Like every mom, you try to juggle, but I also want people to know that you don't have to be a superhero. I'm not a superhero; I have a team of people who help me. I have a great family support system.

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

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

Juggling being a mom and an entertainer is a challenge I face every day.

For me, juggling mommyhood and work is a challenge, but each day I learn little tricks to make it all come together.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

There's ups and downs of any job. If you worked at the post office, there's ups and downs. You have your good days, and you have your bad days. If you're a housewife, you have your good days, and you have your bad days.

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