Quotes About Priorities

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money.

The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to L.A. And I thought, "I want to sell out!"

I'm a weirdo that goes on stage to make strangers laugh, but if I wasn't working, I would just want to be with my wife and kids. I don't even think I'd want to go out to dinner.

In L.A., it's easy to get caught up in what you look like or how much money you have, and those aren't values I want my kids to adopt.

I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not.

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

I've got twins and a lovely wife and a great life and I don't want to miss that. So if I'm going to miss that it's got to be for something really good.

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

After all that, you would think daughter would want to spend time with me, but she's busy. I get it.

I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis they want everything.

My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.

Money and fame? I never had it, don't really know if I want it.

There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can't do them all.

I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can't do it all.