Quotes About Balance

As much as I absolutely love football I know I'm gonna put everything I have into it - that I've got a family at home and my faith in Christ is more important to make sure that's healthy! That's something that like my dad and grandpa showed me.

My grandparents have taught me that since I was younger: just to be involved in a whole bunch of different things so you don't get burnt out, and you know what you like to do and what you don't like to do.

I am a bit of a granny, I feel older than my years. I like to read rather than go to parties but at the same time my band and I have a lot of fun on tour and can be big kids.

We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.

I don't like being over-friendly, as people could take me for granted.

It is very essential for people to spend time with themselves. It is also about understanding the importance of co-existence... where humans co-exist with the animals and all living elements. It is important for humans to understand that and not take life or the world for granted.

At 46 years old, I can no longer afford take my health for granted.

What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.

To play the role of a sports champion, I first needed to break my body and become supremely fit to convincingly look like a college athlete. Along with acing sporting disciplines, I also had to balance the emotional graph and light heartedness of a college drama while competing in varying sport! Combining the two drained a lot out of me.

I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.

I feel so rich in my emotions and in my life and so grateful when I'm home and so grateful when I'm at work.

The two things I always have to fight for are rest and food... I'm just grateful that I have the energy by the end of the day to do a performance.

I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

When my writing career took off, it was pretty easy to keep my ego in check because old-school martial arts isn't about ego gratification. It's about maintaining a balanced view of the world and your place in it.

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

With comedies, it's been very gratifying to be able to clock in, laugh all day, and then clock out.

I want to give back and show my gratitude to the indies. At the same time, cherish the mainstream projects I've been getting.

If you don't embrace the bad, you can never truly embrace the good and be grateful and have gratitude for the tiniest things.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

I actually gravitate toward comedy a lot when it comes to what I'm watching, but maybe that's because I've been on such dark work the last four or five years.

I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.

I don't know; the gravity of playing football - you can't lose the comparison of other stuff. If you do, and football is the only thing, it becomes too serious.

Because I'm short, I have a low center of gravity and I know how to use my weight. If I don't want nobody to pick me up, they can't. They'll catch a hernia trying.

Gravity doesn't lie.