Naomi Watts Quotes

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

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

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

I am constantly hustling and finding new things. You try to manage so you don't look back and see huge gaps of time that you missed with your family.

It's hard to balance work and family.

You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life.

When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.

The only thing that I stress out about is, how am I going to make sure that I balance out my time for motherhood?

I try to balance work and family. As long as I'm able physically and mentally to do it, I will.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

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

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.

For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.

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.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

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

On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

Over the years, I've learnt how to strike a balance between both my lives and give quality time to my passion as well as to my family. Yes, it is tiring at times, and every working woman goes through the phase.

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.