Ben Marcus Quotes

I don't think children have competed with my career, they have clarified it. My children ground me. They make me honest.

I think balancing work and family takes constant adjustment. Its not something you can say you've accomplished and move on.

Although I have a busy work schedule, I make sure I spend time with my family and create a balance between my work and family life.

Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

I think the main thing that I've learned while working on 'Let's Stay Together' is how to balance mommyhood and working.

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.

Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.

My family is my career.

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.

I don't think I would have had much of a career if I didn't have my son.

Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband.

I'm trying to have a family and a career.

It was very clear to me early on that balancing work and family was going to be very important.

I used to say during my career that the biggest gift was having my children.

I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out.

I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.

I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!