Quotes About Priorities

I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.

Before I was working out, if somebody told me that I would actually choose fruit over french fries, I would never believe them.

The issue of work/life balance is a real one, and yet I still find myself frustrated if I feel like I'm giving some aspect of my life short shrift.

People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

I have a personal dream to be a mom, to have a family and all that but - when I do take that break to fulfill it - I want everything else to be so strong and set that people don't forget me.

Being an actor, it is very difficult... I applaud those that can... but it is very difficult to do cinema as well as fulfill family responsibilities.

I think I'll just become a full-time dad, at home, with my family.

Football and school don't go together. They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs.

I love being a dad. I'd do it full-time if I didn't have to make a living.

I have two full-time jobs: one of a mother and the other of an actor. Both are equally important, and that's why I'm busy 24x7.

Now that I'm older, I couldn't do music full-time. You don't get home until two or three a.m. Acting, you can be at home with your family.

Being a mom was a full-time job. I was never willing to sacrifice everything for my career.

First and foremost, I am a husband and a father, which is a full-time job.

I'm in the gym - that's my full-time job. I leave it all in there. When I walk out of that gym I am now the husband, the friend and the father.

To pay the bills, I've liquidated my children's college fund.

This is fundamentally true of the media business, the rigmarole you go through while trying to make 25 movies while not seeing your kids.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

I delayed my father's funeral because of cricket.

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.

I had a concise list of what I wanted out of life, three things (my merry mantra): to be thin, to publish a book with my name on it, and to fall in love with a man who loved me back. (In the wisdom of my thirties I revised this to be a sane man.) The last two items were predicated on being thin.

She'll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid book report on Moby Dick. I mean, Todd, who really cares about whales?' Todd did, but he let the comment slide by.

Is Nicholas—or any guy?—worth the possibility of losing my sister?

No, you won't. And I won't be enough for you, Amanda. I don't want to be the center of your life. I want to be part of it. I want to be your husband, not your god. People can't always be there for you, no matter how much they want to be. And that includes me.