Quotes About Priorities

In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

Don't get too set on becoming an actor at an early age. I think that's where some people get into trouble. Acting becomes their life. I don't want that.

I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.

I have enough to think about - I just don't ever want to have to think about my car.

If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.

I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It's my passion.

It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.

When you get to my age, you'll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That's the ultimate test of how you've lived your life.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure theyre all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

I want you to be a connoisseur of great questions? Here's one - what would we do if we had no money?

When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Dont separate your life, the life that youre going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'

If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

Just because I've walked into this crazy fantasy doesn't mean I can just abandon my other plans, much as I might want to.

When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'

My family's the most important thing to me right now, and I just want to go be with them right now.

My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business.... so I always resisted it and kept things simple.