Quotes About Priorities

People complain about not having a social life and always working. But I enjoy working.

I probably spend 14 hours a day, if you include a commute, at work. That doesn't leave a whole lot of time to train, and it certainly doesn't leave a lot of time for a social life. Which I have none.

I am not on social media, as I don't feel the need to communicate with the outside world. People who matter to me are just a call away.

Protecting Medicare and Social Security, health care, workers' rights, and a woman's right to choose remain top priorities for me.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.

As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.

I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor.

I always say: 'If I'm lucky enough to be given the opportunity to work again, that's it, I'm being wheeled on, sitting on a sofa, and someone's going to feed me grapes, and I'm not getting up.'

A lot of people have what they call 'sofa time,' but it just doesn't exist in my world.

When I am shooting a film, then everything goes soft focus. My family also complains that I don't give them time.

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.

When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.

A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.

More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won't provide additional bread for our families, desks for our schools, or medicine for our clinics.

Being a mother changes perspective. Things that were once really important, the sole focus of your life, aren't the same.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

With So Solid, we had overnight success and I bought stupid stuff with my money, I bought a 35k car while I was still living in a council flat.

I wanted to focus on creating a solid foundation, creating my blueprint, and understanding who I was. You can get distracted easily, and people take you off course with just a compliment. I wanted the focus to be on Karen Civil the businessperson, not what I wore, not what I looked like.

For us, it wasn't important to have a big house, a few cars, always have the newest clothes. Solidarity as a family was important. We were there for each other and always will be.

Money doesn't solve anything.

One of the metaphors that I use for start-ups is, you throw yourself off a cliff and assemble your airplane on the way down. If you don't solve the right problem at the right time, that's the end. Mortality puts priorities into sharp focus.

In the future, when I come home, most of the things that I need to worry about are solved so I can spend time with my family.