Jessica Alba Quotes

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

There's sacrifice involved. Either you're going to work a lot and not get to spend time with your kid, or you're going to spend a ton of time with your kid, and you're sacrificing your career.

I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.

We're a much more touchy-feely, hands-on generation than our fathers but juggling work, family and social life and trying to be romantic and keep yourself fit is really hard. I want to be the perfect dad but you can't be the perfect dad unless you compromise elsewhere.

I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.

It's hard, and I don't always get to see my kids. I will never catch up on that time I've missed.

Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.

It was fine when I was single and childless. Carrying the responsibility of screwing up your kids at the same time is huge. I remember when I got Peter Pan, and I told my mom and dad and my friends I was leaving - again, I was cast way late on - in the next two days to go to Australia for four months, and they all went "Bye! See you in four months!" But no one said "We need you," and I really knew that it was time to think about someone else for a change.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

I am always exhausted; I am always trying to find more time to be with my family, which is why they travel with me so much.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family.

I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.