I don't think the people wanna see me play Clyde Johnson the architect.
I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.
My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.
If I get too glam and polished and pretty, people are like, 'Hari, why aren't you speaking up about issues?' And if I start speaking up about issues, people are like, 'Why can't you just be an actress?'
Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think, as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.
I act, but I am a mother first and wife second.
Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.
You cannot be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect actor all at the same time.
Scientists don't like to be called salesmen.
It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.
He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It was a household that preferred me working, which threw me off completely.
With the best will, no one can be an official and a man.
They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
The White House Press Secretary is supposed to serve the President and the Press. I found that I could not serve two masters.
My family didn't have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, 'Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?' And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.
You want to be a good mother, and you want to be a good actress, and you want to be a good friend, and we expect this of us, to be all of this.
Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
There are over 30 doctors running for the US Congress this year. That's going to be rather strange. Half the time these folks will be playing God and asking women to take their clothes off and the other half the time they will be doctors.
I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.
To some extent the Federal Reserve considers itself government. Other times, when it serves, it considers itself not government.
There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.
