Quotes About Balance

When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.

I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.

To keep my metabolism healthy, I eat seven-eight meals a day, every two hours.

I don't do long juice cleanses because, for me, it messes up my metabolism, and I actually gain weight.

I'm a family guy who grew up with metal, and even though I'm domesticated I still have this in me.

It's very important to us, family, and the balance of family within the band is probably the most important. Metallica is important, but when you have your wife and your kids, and you need to maintain that and keep the peace, it's important to work around the schedule of the kids' schools.

Our home, just like our garden, evolves. We experiment, try out different things and new colors until we feel content. Try to keep the metaphor of home as garden in your consciousness.

I do Bar Method - it's, like, you're there for an hour, and you get everything, and you're done.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

I am methodical about my email inbox, and I always have a physical to-do list. Without those two things, I think I'd lose my mind.

Adam's impulsive and energetic, and I'm calm and methodical.

I cook all the time, and I cook all different kinds of things, but never Mexican at home. That's my work.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.

You need to be grounded internally and excited about the world around you. If I were out of touch, it would be hard for me to know why Michael Cera is so cool.

For years, I kept the two separate: Michael Horse the artist and Michael Horse the actor. I like the acting, but I'm an artist; that's my identity.

Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the economy and jobs when the scales are tipped too far in favor of one group over another.

I know people may find this hard to believe, but there were lots of times when I would be just too tired to go out. I'd have Mick Jagger calling me on the phone saying, 'Oh, Bebe, please come out,' and I would be like, 'Oh, please, I've gotta go to sleep.'

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day.