Quotes About Balance

I don't get to do quiet time.

I imagine I appear very outgoing, and I do enjoy people and parties and being involved in life. I am also a very private person, and I value my quiet time. I think people assume I am just a party animal, and in truth, I need to recharge my battery just like everyone else.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.

If something is to be quietly powerful, it requires more balance than a film that allows for more freneticism.

We try not to flaunt our family too much. I know it works for some people, but while our children are small I want them to grow up quietly and normally.

I'm enjoying the frenetic pace of this changing world and yet within that hanging on quietly but quite stoically to the same thing I've always done.

I just work so much and so hard that I love the idea of being around family, friends and my animals quietly at home, just chilling out.

Cartooning, quietly and discreetly, drew me into the circle of politics and I continue to enjoy both. They both inspire me and I could never given up one for the other.

I need both to feel good: the energy of the city and the quietness of the country.

If I'm exhausted and I just don't feel like it, then I don't do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I'm the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it's very easy for me to take the next day off and then quit exercising.

I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.

Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard.

I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting and working around the house?

It's impossible to be someone you're not, so quit trying. I am as passionate about my hobbies as I am about my work and my family. All three are equally important to me at all times.

For me, writing is fun. The day I quit my job and take up writing full time, writing will become just another job. A commercial necessity.

I certainly know women who had children, quit their jobs, and still have full-time nannies. That's who these women are: Even to the detriment of their own relationship with their kids, they want to appear perfect Martha Stewart moms.

When I started really playing music, I pretty much quit sports. I quit everything.

Some people thought I was crazy when I quit Europe to go to the U.S., but for me the quality of life and the place I live is important.

When I was trying to balance my corporate career and theatre, my dad asked me to quit my job and concentrate on my acting career. But I was hesitant because I was equally passionate about both.