Judy Woodruff Quotes

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.

I knew when I got into this business I couldn't have it both ways: I could live the playboy lifestyle, which is not a bad thing to do, or have a traditional family life, which is how I grew up. And that was more important to me.

My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

My mom always worked, and I certainly don't want to look back and think, 'Well, I don't have kids, but I'm glad I did that sitcom.'

I want to work. I'd be unsatisfied if I couldn't be pursuing this. But I love my family more. This is really life.

I don't know anyone that says, 'Boy, I had a great career, and I'm happy because I screwed up my life outside of my career, my family life.' There's no one that feels that way.

My career is my whole life, so if I'm not happy with that, it affects everything else.

I hope that the little sacrifices that I make in my life - being away from my daughter, my husband and I not seeing each other as much - I hope it does inspire young girls to realize they can be whatever they want in this life.

I knew that if I worked hard, I could have both - I could have a family, because that was important to me, and I could have a career.

Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours

I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.

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.

I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.

If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to work while the other one was.