Sherri Shepherd Quotes

I'm like any working mom.

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.

We're a very active family, and I like everything in its place. I'm all about designing every little space. It will help me in the business of being a mom. Every single day is so crazy with my work that I just need to be able to come home and do that business as efficiently as I try to do my professional work.

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.

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

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

I'm constantly struggling. You know, the stories that I feel like I could cover, do the work that I want to do and being a mother. That's really where my struggle is - and being a wife and having a life - and for me it's really hard to find that balance. I'm always struggling to find that balance.

It's about maintaining balance. Plan better, be organised. I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

If anything gets in the way of me being a good mom or wife, I simply say no.

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

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.

My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancing anything. My husband and my kids absolutely come first, so work is just something where I figure out where it will fit.

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

Yes, I wear a number of hats. But my most important title is mom and wife.

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 had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

You can't be the perfect member of Congress and the perfect mother 100 percent of the time. And probably, you'd be a pretty annoying person if you were.

It's easy to get lost in the baby. You have to make sure you give your husband attention.

There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.