Quotes About Priorities

I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.'

I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.

Two of our favorite excuses for holding onto a few extra pounds and being out of shape: Too little time and too little money.

My natural body weight is about 183 pounds. I've just always tried to keep 10 pounds of muscle on me because the bigger you were before, the more money you made. I always tried to cut at least five pounds to get to 185.

I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

I've never made a conscious decision to choose work over other considerations.

I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did.

We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.

My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.

I would love to coach and teach people about football. It's just that the time constraints are so tough to coach, especially when you have seven kids and they are growing up. I'm just in too blessed of a situation to spend from five in the morning until 12 at night coaching and not watching my kids grow up.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

I could be earning a lot of money as a consultant, or gone higher in education.

So many things will happen, for better or worse, in your career, and it's very easy for those things to bog you down or consume you. But when you get a chance to look back, you realize that those were not the things that were really important.

I'm not consumed with political machinations.

Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.

With a child, it was difficult to take up films, as it would have consumed a lot of time.

I have dabbled in management but I found it a little too all consuming.

I have always enjoyed dressing up, but I don't do it as often as I would want to, because it's time consuming.

'Law & Order' was amazing but so consuming, I couldn't get to the stage.

I had a baby and that is pretty time consuming.

I just go into a contest looking to put down a good run. As long as I feel like I've done what I came to do, and I'm happy with my riding, where I end up doesn't matter that much to me.

As long as I'm taking care of my family and breaking records and continuing to excel and continuing to find new endorsements - everything's working.