Quotes About Priorities

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

When you're filming, you work 19-hour days and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband. You're away, you miss things. It's taxing. Relationships fail because of it.

I have developed a life which seems to need a relatively high income.

When a woman gets to 30, you ask her about having kids. I don't mind - all my friends are settled with kids, so I can understand people asking, and I even get it from relatives, but I'd be a fool to miss these work opportunities. And there's no time limit. One day I'll find my prince, but at the minute, I'm enjoying kissing a few frogs.

Women sometimes get so caught up in life... their marriage takes over their life, their relatives take over their life, and then they forget who they are.

People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.

Having my priorities in order has really helped me look better, fresher, and more relaxed.

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

I don't want to go home and tell my wife and my girls, 'I was gone last week because I had to do a press release.'

On hindsight, I feel I should have given more time to sports. But I really got bitten by the acting bug.

I could make a PartyNextDoor album that's clean, all hits. That's not what I care about doing.

I was up for parts in 'Charlie's Angels' and 'Three's Company,' but other people got them. At the time I was very disappointed because I knew the shows would be tremendous hits. But if I had done either I would not have done the following: 'Chorus Line,' 'Dancin',' 'Chicago,' 'Movie Movie,' 'All That Jazz' and 'Annie.'

I don't know if I spent any time on a putting green when I was a kid. I was too busy hitting driver.

I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.

Apple doesn't do hobbies as a general rule.

My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.

Beware the hobby that eats.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

When you're younger, you worry about the sack and getting abuse and things, but when you get to my age, you become less bothered about those things. It becomes more like a hobby and less like life or death.

It's my job. It's not a hobby, it's how I put food on the table for my family. I have to be on a bike.

I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.

I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.

The problem is my movie career is hindering my hockey schedule.