Jessica Alba Quotes

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 like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

I am lucky in that I love what I do, but it can still be hard to be away from the kids for long lengths of time. At the end of the day, all I want is to be with my kids, but it's worth it to create a future for my family.

I always wanted to have a really successful career, but I always wanted to be a mom, too.

I just don't want to miss anything in the lives of my children while they are still young. It's why I don't audition for leading roles at all and why I say no to some of the supporting roles that I do get offered.

It's important to pursue the career that we want and the titles that we want to get, but there's family time.

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

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

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

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

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.

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.

One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.

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.

I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.

I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.

I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

As much as I would love to do roles in big movies and am keen to establish myself in the industry. I don't want to sacrifice things that I really enjoy, like spending time with my family and friends.

I adore my family; they are my joy. However, I am committed to my work. If, on a Saturday morning when I was ostensibly going to be with the children, and something arose at RADA or at UNICEF or at the orphanage or whatever, I would allow the other pressures to take precedent.

I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.