Quotes About Priorities

Having high quality daycare is by far the most important thing you can do when your kids are little. When I relocated, I spent more time looking for daycare than I did looking for a house.

When I'm back home, I try to do as little as possible because I want to take time with my family. That's the most important thing.

I come from a family who didn't have much money but raised me to believe that money wasn't the most important thing in the world. We had enough; we were happy.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.

My life is different since I moved back to L.A. from New York, mostly because I have a family and I don't go out.

A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.

This whole motherhood thing has really been, like, back to work from the get-go. It's sort of a balance.

Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.

For a while, I was feeling so creative in motherhood that I had no longing to work. I felt that my children needed me, that I couldn't leave them for a second.

Til marriage and motherhood happened, I was devoted to my work. I didn't see anything beyond it.

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason.

I never cared about money because I never needed money, you know what I mean? When I was 12 to 17 I never saw any of the money, so the money never motivated me.

Some people are motivated by money - I'm not one of them.

I was never motivated by money.

And one thing for me is I've never been motivated by money.

I'm not hugely monetarily motivated.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't like the money, but that's not what motivates me.

That can happen sometimes: We see what's good but need to be given the motivation or strength to do it when we're tired or distracted by something else. That's one of the major things a family is for, and I look forward to that with the family that I start one day.

Everyone wants more money, but if the motivation is money it's not going to work, if that's the only thing you want.

Money's important, but it isn't a motivator for me.

Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him - I'm Nathan Lane?