Quotes About Priorities

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

I can't believe how many people don't have time to cook but have time to watch football and 'The Voice.' They're certainly making a choice.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about... 'hazel eyes'. It does help if you can brush that stuff off.

Your life shouldn't necessarily cost exactly how much money you make.

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.

I'm still doing what I've always wanted to do, and how big it gets or how much money I make for it or how popular I am in the public's eye is really not that important, even though it's hard to let that go.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

My kids are a huge part of my life.

In many ways 'Emmerdale' is a huge part of my life but in many ways it's not. I've always had so many interests elsewhere - family and friends and other interests away from that.

I didn't have any more children because I couldn't have continued working - and I was the main breadwinner. But although we are small in number, family life has always been hugely important to me.

I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

I've been on some very good horses which have died, and that's very tough to take. But as much as we love the horses, and care for them, human life is obviously more important. Some good friends of mine have died or been paralysed while doing a job we all love.

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

If a hundred people want autographs, sometimes you have to say no because you've got to get up for a 4 A.M. flight or something. In that sense, it really pisses me off when people think you've become a diva. It's not becoming a diva, it's because of the situation, I think.

I don't care about hundreds, fifties, averages.

I could have earned lots of crores by doing hundreds of more 'Rangeela' that came my way.

My mum would have gone hungry before I would go hungry.

I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don't even get out of bed five days in a row-I often don't remember to eat five days in a row. Reporting to a workplace, where I should need to stay for eight hours-eight big hours outside my home- was unfeasible.

You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker.

Wear this, don't wear that. Do this chore now and do this chore when you get a chance and by that I mean now. And definitely, definitely, give up the things you love for me, so I will have proof that you love me best.