Elisabeth Hasselbeck Quotes

I've made choices that work with my family. I want to work and I want to be with my family so I just walk the tight-rope of showing up for both those things.

Sometimes I think I might have children while I'm still working, but then I think I'd better wait until I can give them all I want to give.

My kids gotta understand: they gotta make a sacrifice, having a superstar dad.

I love the game. But I love my wife and kids more. I can't tell you how many sacrifices I make throughout the season. I leave the house at 4:15 A.M. and get home at 7 P.M. and see my kids an hour every night. It's been sacrificing for nine years. It's not just about what's best for me. It's about what's best for me and my family.

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

I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.

There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.

My children come first and the career comes in around that.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.

There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.

When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

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.

Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.

Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

The last thing our children need is less protection.

When I talk to younger actors, and young people in general, who are holding off having children because they think they cannot fit them into their busy lives, I now know, and am able to say to them, 'You've just got to get on with it; there is never going to be a right time.'

I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

As soon as I had a child, he became the priority. Now, I fit my training around him. I've changed as an athlete.

There's not a mom or dad that wants to leave their child unprotected.