Gisele Bundchen Quotes

From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

With four kids, it's hard to watch anything other than 'Sesame Street.'

My life revolves around my child's routine.

I have three boys. Sometimes my wife and I really have to battle to keep video games from encroaching.

When you have children, you don't have downtime, but I have a family life that is rich and fulfiling.

It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Kids really take you out of yourself, and your priorities become really clear. With acting and the business, you don't really have priorities. You have no idea what each day or week's going to be like.

Like every mom, you try to juggle, but I also want people to know that you don't have to be a superhero. I'm not a superhero; I have a team of people who help me. I have a great family support system.

My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

I just kept making records, touring in Europe a lot, and then I had a baby in 2006, so my life has been very, very much family-orientated.

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

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.

The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.

I've let a lot of my type A personality go. When you have a kid, the messiness doesn't matter anymore.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.