Quotes About Balance

Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading.

At a certain point, you have to stop reading social.

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

Acting is an incredibly gratifying, creative experience when you're doing it. But in the off-season, you want to scratch that itch, and writing has become that to me. It's a really pure form of creativity. It's good for my mental health in the same way reading books is good for me. It makes the day brighter.

So, just make the right reads and the ball will always come back around to you. Taking the right shots and not forcing anything. Just let the game slow down and play free.

The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.

Sleep is the real beauty secret, but I don't get enough of that.

I was a law student when I started acting in plays. I was a real estate lawyer but I continued acting on stage because that is what gave me a lot of happiness.

I have to focus and keep things together as much as anyone with a real job... It's just that I know, from experience, that the more fun I have doing something that the more successful it will be.

My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life outside of show business.

I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends and try not to take myself too seriously.

You've got to be happy when you play a sad character; otherwise, you just get depressed. Make your real life as fun as possible.

I have a kid and a husband and my family, and it's important to live the real life. I don't want to offer my whole life to cinema. It's only cinema.

You have your real life and then you have your work.

In real life, I'm very rational, and I'm not very dramatic.

I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.

In real life, I'm a dad.

We live a pretty real life within our Hollywood selves. I'm not working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by any means.

I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as much as possible. Real life is happening all around you; you're better off just being a part of it.