Quotes About Balance

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

I don't attend parties. After the day's shoot, I go home and spend time with my family. I never take my work home, and neither do I involve my family in work.

Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.

I have to be at work every day at six in the morning and then cover premieres and parties that go late into the night, so a 12-hour workday is the norm.

Though I am probably guilty of indulging in excessive tribalism myself at times, I try to put partisanship to one side where appropriate.

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

The reality is that family is on the cards in the future. But you know in motorsport if you take yourself off to have children, you won't come back, partly as you're quickly forgotten in this sport.

It's just not possible to be a real partner if you aren't materially participating. I believe even the busiest business owners must drive a carpool, pack a lunch, help with homework, make a breakfast or dinner, and consistently attend school events.

I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.

I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.

Of my three daughters and one daughter-in-law, they all work. They all work, some of them full-time, some of them part-time. But they're still there as moms. And when they come home and take over that responsibility, they need a shared partner, and that partner is that partner for life. And I'm talking about, of course, the father.

Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was.

My partner loves gardening and beekeeping and chickens and all that stuff.

I think it is important to give your partner enough time in a relationship.

It's very important in any relationship that one partner doesn't lose themselves in the other, and that's very easy if you're involved with a celebrity.

I want time for my career, my kids, and my partner.

You have to put your partner and family at the top of the list and there must be downtime - time for gardening, cooking time, book reading time.

To be an Olympian is not flattering for any partner that's with you. It's a really selfish part of your life.

I still want to try to get back to my life as normal as possible and eventually start a family, have children and have a career, have my partner have his own career, everything.

In every relationship there will be a person who's the dominating character. That doesn't mean that celebrities don't marry or that they don't get a partner.

I believe equality in a relationship is very important, and for that, both partners should be equally capable to handle anything.

As women, we're trying to be the best mothers and partners and have careers. We're trying to do so much. It's okay to say to other women, 'How do you do this?' Because I honestly don't know. The more we are honest, the more you realize we're all just trying to figure this out.