Paula Poundstone Quotes

I have a kid and a husband and my family, and it's important to live the real life. I don't want to offer my whole life to cinema. It's only cinema.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

TaskRabbit is really my first baby. So balancing the second child is something I've tackled, but I'm really passionate about what I do, and then I'm passionate about coming home and putting my baby to bed.

'Wings' offered me the rare opportunity to be a full-time dad and a working actor for eight years.

I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.

Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband.

Although I have a busy work schedule, I make sure I spend time with my family and create a balance between my work and family life.

I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.

I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.

I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

I'm a single father, I don't like to be away from my son. So I'll go out, make a film and come back. Repeat. And it's worked out very well for the last 11 years.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.

Any job I choose has to work with my schedule with my kids. I don't want to miss any of my time with them.

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

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.

My family is my career.