Quotes About Contentment

Individual awards are important, but I am not obsessed with them.

You can get money, and you can win awards, and you can be on magazines, but that's not going to make you happy.

I've been in the business for so long that I don't sit home and look at my awards.

Fame and success and awards should never be the aim. The aim should be: Are you enjoying the making of the thing?

I don't hanker after awards.

This is not a bad life.

I never have a bad night, bad day, bad moment.

I feel matured in a way that I'm happy about. I'm at this other stage in my life - and it's not a bad thing at all.

If I play well I'm not very, very happy and if I play badly I'm not very, very sad. I just try to keep my balance.

I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough.

I don't think my life has been badly lived - but I don't think of it that way. And nor should I.

I don't do the show business lifestyle, you'll never see me rolling out of parties with a goody bag in my hand. My night out is a night in, with friends round for dinner.

I don't wake up in the morning thinking that I have to bag roles in all good films that are being made.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

I believe you have to have balance in your life.

It's important to feel settled and balanced in life, and that has been tough for me to do.

I always thought it is a bit of a balloon, how rich we are.

It's almost like when you don't have money, you think it's important. And once you have it, you're like, 'Was I really happy because I have more money going into the bank? No.'

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.

Everyone wants the biggest car, the biggest bank account, the biggest house. I don't want any part of that.

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

My bankers are very happy with me.

I will never be Barbra Streisand, but I have done an awful lot more than what I was sent out to be.

I've always heard Leo saying he is happy at Barcelona. I'll take the message that he is very comfortable here.