Quotes About Priorities

It's hard to balance work-life commitments and sometimes you feel you're not doing anything particularly well.

Once you have six children, you're committed.

I want to remain a common man, want to spend time with my family.

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

Canadians are a compassionate people and we should be. But at what cost?

Campaigning and acting aren't compatible. That's why Audrey Hepburn gave up acting. That's why Angelina Jolie will give up. I'm not ready to stop yet.

I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.

What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.

I really don't know how athletes manage to do it, having kids while they're still competing and being able to stay at the top of their game.

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

I have no complaints except for the fact that I get very little time with my family. However, the happiness they feel every time they see me doing well compensates for everything.

It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.

Sometimes who is going to be taking care of all of my kids on any given day is more complicated than any trade agreement.

I don't want to compromise on my singing or drop down its level to start acting.

You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.

You want to be the best at your career, you want to be the best mum, a great wife and all of that. Most of the time, it's not possible. You have to compromise somewhere.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

I don't know how you make a living without a few personal compromises.

I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.

Earlier in my career, there may have been compulsions for accepting films for money.

We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

My father was an MLA and I've grown up knowing the kind of stuff that goes behind the working of a party and the role of the party people, and I used to think that one day I too would be a part of it. But when acting happened, politics took a backseat in my mind and I concentrated more into building my acting career.

At 13, I concentrated on my school work and playing sports, which, to this day, is something I still believe is very, very important.

It really broke my heart when music took a back seat when I was concentrating more on films. It was like choosing between two children.