Alice Roberts Quotes

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

If you're in public life, a certain percentage of what you do must be done on television.

Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.

My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.

Whatever career you are in, you always have other distractions.

Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

I'm not interested in running around from one shoot to another.

I'm moderating one of the presidential primary debates right after I've had a baby. I'm sitting in a dirty closet on the floor behind the auditorium where this debate is taking place between Obama, Hillary Clinton, and I'm pumping breast milk... twenty minutes before I'm going on.

There was a time that I did 'Up,' 'Star Trek' and 'Land of the Lost,' and I was working on 'Lost,' at the same time, and that was really hard.

I scarcely talk to reporters at all.

I don't mind being busy.

I love doing live TV.

I do think that if you've got a compelling argument to make in this country, going on television, going online, being on social media, you've got a broader ability to be effective at communicating your message if you engage a wide span of platforms rather than just standing on the House floor in the middle of the night, speaking to an empty room.

I never think I work hard enough, as much things I have on my plate.

With respect to keeping your sanity, the more you are dedicated to your job, the more you think about it. And there is so much to think about for the director.

I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

My greatest career mistake is giving interviews.

Like most working moms, my life is a constant juggling act.

In an average week I'll be testing recipes, doing a voice-over, filming and writing. I cram everything in Monday to Friday because I refuse to give up the weekend.

I worked at Columbia University's School of Public Health.

I may have been on the cover of People and gone on 'David Letterman' and 'Arsenio Hall' because they had young audiences I wanted to talk to. But at the same time, I always did serious books or taught seminars.

I normally don't do interviews on the road.