Quotes About Balance

I'm usually done working by Happy Hour.

Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.

I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

There just aren't enough hours in the day; I've got a lot of things that I want to do, and those that I can do, I'm going to make sure that I do do!

I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

There are never enough hours in the day.

I used to work, like, for 16 hours a day, or sometimes 24 hours.

I think about work 24 hours a day. But when you fly a helicopter, for that hour or two you can't think about anything else.

I usually sleep just a few hours a night.

You can go the route of not living your life at all - and a lot of actors do that, where they just won't even go out of the house at all - but it makes life so unenjoyable. You can't go out, you can't hold hands with your girlfriend, you can't do any of these things.

I drive one car. I own one house. That's enough for me.

I don't know how to cook. I work a lot. So, for me, then, it's important to find a man who can cook. Who will make the house a home more than I can.

I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

There's no perfect household anywhere.

There's a lot going on in the Bassett-Vance household, a lot of balls in the air.

A lot of women feel like they put their ambitions on hold sometimes because they do hold down the household and that's something that has to change.

There's a lot of players that go to a city, pick up a check, go to practice, and just worry about what's happening in their households, and you can't blame them.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.

I admire but don't envy people who have children and also have big, wonderful perfect houses. Maybe Martha Stewart could do it; to me those two things aren't compatible, but I know our children will grow up with a feeling that home is a place of comfort.

I am a full time mother and a housewife. I don't think I need anything else to do.

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.