Quotes About Priorities

On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I don't think much about how my past films have performed at the box office.

I needed the time to go to college and spend years with people who aren't in the business and become a person on my own in order to be the person that I am and the performer that I am. I wouldn't give that up to be in blockbusters or have more money.

Naturally you want to be the best mom you can, but then also you want to be the best performer you can.

Every performer has to decide for themselves whether they feel they can combine family life and their performing life, and they have to establish a division that makes them happy. I never thought it would be a problem and it hasn't been.

I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life.

To be confident going out and performing, I need to be with my son for as long as possible; then I know I'm happy, and he's happy, and I can go out and put all my energy into performing.

It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

I think I've been lucky enough not to have to do movie after movie after movie for financial reasons, so I've been able to live life and also make movies. I didn't have to grind them out. I could go long periods where I was living life rather than tripping over cables.

My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a working mum. But I found it very hard to be away from my family, even for short periods of time.

I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.

I didn't see my son walk for the first time. I've left my wife at home with two kids for long periods of time to go to training camps, to foreign countries.

I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

I need to make money for my family and my future family. I'm not a YOLO person.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

It is the hither accomplishment to use money well than to use arms; but not to need it is more noble than to use it.

Men, whither is your course taking you, who give all possible attention to the acquiring of money but give small thought to your sons to whom ye are to leave it?

But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.