Quotes About Balance

I feel like a semi-single mum.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do.

I think every mother feels that the best place for their child is with their mum, but you want things for yourself, too. So, you're either at work feeling guilty, or you are at home feeling frustrated.

I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'

My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship.'

I love being a mum. Sometimes I just wish nobody knew who I was.

Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.

For Mum and Dad... work and home is family, so work is family and home is family. We grew up with that.

When I was growing up, Mum and Dad were both equal: they both worked, they both cooked, they both looked after us. So I wouldn't expect my husband to be any different.

I'm fortunate to have a home in both Mumbai and Delhi, and to be a part of cinema and the political world. Both are different and engaging.

In Mumbai I have to keep an eye on my diet so that I stay in shape, but at home I just indulge.

In Mumbai and Chennai there is method in the madness. Despite its large crowds there is a 'live and let live' spirit and a connection with good.

When I'm in Mumbai, I make sure I drop Vir to school and pick up as well. And I fit all my work within that time duration so that I can be as present a parent I can be.

Actually, once you have a lot of work at hand in Mumbai, there's little free time to spend alone.

My base will always be Mumbai since my parents live here and I will always come down to Mumbai or fly down south for work.

I find so often, you know, just on a very mundane level; you've got a meeting and your child's acting in a school play. You can't do both things. And it's not simply that you can't do both, but whatever you do, you're going to be neglecting something that's really important.

Every player at Bayern Munich wants to play and should play - they all have good reasons.

When I model, I use every single muscle in my body. Being fit and physical lets me know that control.

One-legged squats are amazing for the glutes, so I've actually managed to change the shape of my bum by building up the bits of muscle.

I learned how to get in shape without getting certain muscles too big that make you look like a meathead.

I love barre because even when I'm not dancing, I feel like I'm training those same muscles.

I do a lot of things because if you do just one thing... like, if you run too much, everything just gets loose. You lose weight, but you get loose, and you want to be strong, have muscles.