Joshua Bell Quotes

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.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

This whole motherhood thing has really been, like, back to work from the get-go. It's sort of a balance.

I'm trying to have a family and a career.

Unfortunately, daily routine is the last thing I have with all three kids, family life, work, foundation, and the amount of travel that I do! So truly, what I try to do to keep myself centered is take breaths in between and before I start a new thing throughout the day.

I'm just a normal mother with the same struggles as any other mother who's trying to do everything at once and trying to be a wife and maintain a relationship. There's absolutely nothing perfect about my life, but I just try hard.

Sometimes when you are a great mom, you're not so great at your job. And then when you're good at your job, you're not so great of a mom or a good wife. It's a dance that never stops. But it's beautiful.

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.

Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

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.

Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

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, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

When you finally have kids, you realize how selfish you are. I think we are naturally selfish beings. When you have kids, that can kind of be a shock at first. I think just trying to make time for yourself is very hard. Especially now that I have 3, finding that time can be very difficult.

I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing.

Most of the people I know in the film business here in New York, the moms and the dads, just take different turns working. So everybody's a working parent, and nobody bats an eyelash at it.

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.