Overwhelming Responsibilities Quotes

There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'

It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

In People magazine, Madonna said her life has been exhausting since she started her world tour. She said there isn't a second of her life that isn't taken up looking after her family or thinking of her show - her day is filled with problems of work and family. Someone should tell her, everyone else calls that, life.

I have been juggling so many roles. I am a mother, too. I have three sons to take care of. I don't even know how I manage to pull it off sometimes.

Sometimes in life you reach your breaking point, when you just can't deal with something anymore.

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.

I'm losing friendships over forgetting to get back to people. But you can't keep up with everything. I've got a 13-year-old, a nine-year-old and a baby.

I think there's something about being absolutely at the height of intensity at almost every moment of one's job that makes it a lot easier if you don't have time to think much, just sort of barrel through the next crisis.

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.

It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.

I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.

Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

I can't be all things to everyone.

When you start to have success, people look at you differently and expect more from you. With that comes a lot of pressure to perform, so it can be a little overwhelming.

A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

Every time I think I'd want a huge, huge career, I realize I'd go crazy under that kind of scrutiny.

1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.

It's difficult to parent one kid, let alone five! It's insane. It's this strange, overwhelming mess that I would not trade for anything. I think it's more difficult in New York City. It's not like we can hop in the minivan and go somewhere. I don't own a car. It's chaos anywhere. Being a parent is difficult. Being a son and a daughter is difficult. It's a human relationship.