Alexi Zentner Quotes

Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can't play with her because I'm working. Keep in mind that working consists of me at home with a laptop on my lap sitting on the couch. It doesn't look like working. I don't have a hammer or anything.

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

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do.

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

My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.

It's hard to kind of marry your personal life with the theater. It always works so well for my life, and then I had kids, and the thought of missing putting them to bed is a tough one for me. You know, I'm there a lot for them.

It's about self-sacrifice. Since having children, I've worked, but I've maintained the balance of being at home as well.

With kids and all the other activities around the house, I'm finding it harder to give my full attention to basketball.

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards.

I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key.

You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have that luxury. I have a babysitter for three hours a day, which is how long I have to write.

Balancing trying to be an athlete trying to get ready for WrestleMania, training twice a day, to everything you do at the office to remembering that you have a wife and kids and everything else - it's challenging, but you just make it happen. In some ways, it's no different than anyone else's life.

Having two kids is like having 1000. It's just scheduling, moving around, being mobile.

I've tried writing with music on, but I find it distracting.

There have been a lot of times when work and parenting conflicted for me. Every day.

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