Ben Fogle Quotes

I always feel like I want more time with my kids. But I reject the notion that you can't have it all. I think you can: just not necessarily in abundance.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be a mother who is there for your child, then you have to make sure that when you do spend time together, you're really there for them.

If you want to spend weekends with your family, something's got to give.

I want time for my career, my kids, and my partner.

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

You can't have a relationship when you're shooting a 14-hour day and your husband is shooting a 14-hour day in the same city. It's a time thing and it's a together thing.

When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

I totally support women working on their relationships, their careers, or whatever they need to do to be healthy moms, but it's also important to realize you may not have as much time as you think.

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.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

There are days that I love just devoting to going to the park and playing with my son, but then sometimes you have to leave out other things, or if work is a full day of work, perhaps I miss the play time with my son, and I guess the only struggle is trying to not shortchange any of the things that you want to do.

I turn down really well-paid shows all over the world because I want to spend more time with my wife and myself.

I think, as a working mother, what is more challenging for me is that I get to balance both work and home and prioritise my kid's life.

I love the WWE, I love the company, but I have two kids, and they want me home. They want me to see their recitals and sporting events, and I want to see them grow and evolve.

I won't try and combine training and a family.