Quotes About Balance

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

It means a lot to me to have my kids like what I do. And that's why I limit them. But I don't want to put that pressure on them to be a fan of mine.

I'm constantly feeding my metabolism. But at the same time if I want to go one night and have a nice dinner then I won't sweat it the next day.

There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.

I just kind of take every day at a time. I just know that I don't do anything that I don't want to do; I enjoy everything that I do and that's what you have to do to keep it good and keep it real.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that.

There really isn't any limit to the number of people who want a piece of you, and it's all important stuff.

There's some very good medias. And I have to say, Fox has treated me fairly. And I don't mean good, but they've treated me fairly. I don't want to be treated good. I just want to be treated fairly.

We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.

You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but you want to get rid of the bathwater so the baby can swim the next couple of days and be OK.

In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them.