Vishnu Vishal Quotes

I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

Of course there were times, particularly when you travel, when it's very tough to leave the kids, particularly when they were very young. I would try to take them with me when I could just so they could experience and see a little bit of what a work day involved.

There were so many occasions when I wasn't around for my kids or my husband. But we learnt to work around it.

I never felt comfortable leaving my kids until they were older. When they were babies, I remember thinking that I could never go on a Jerry Bruckheimer set and feel comfortable.

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

I think the hardest part of being a working mom is that I miss my kids a lot.

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

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.

My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'

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

I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.

You can still love your job and feel guilty. You can still love your child and feel guilty. There's a lot of grey in that. It's about being conscious when you are spending time with your kids, being with them in the moment.

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.

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

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.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I'm not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as much.

I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and Jeffrey was screaming that he didn't want me to. You have to give yourself permission to let go of the guilt.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

The whole time I was on 'Grey's,' I'm still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son, because he never saw me during that time. By the time he got up, he'd see a dent in his pillow, but by the time I got home, he was already asleep. So for three years, he had a daddy that he never saw because I had to work.

As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key.

Ever since having kids, napping is something that I'm prone to do and very easily could do but rarely get the chance to.