Quotes About Priorities

I always say that my motto when it comes to children is: My job is not to get you into Harvard, it's to get you to heaven.

I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.

I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.

My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.

I give my heart for this sport. I give my leg for this sport. I give my time for my family for this sport.

My time is focused on family and work. I need to find a way to spend more time with my friends - and cycling.

After I retire, for some time at least, I will spend my time with my grandchildren and my family members, because all these years, 50 years, I have not been able to give my time to them.

I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist.

Any job I choose has to work with my schedule with my kids. I don't want to miss any of my time with them.

If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.

I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.

It's a myth that you can have it all. You can't, but more importantly, I don't think you should want to. It sounds exhausting!

I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids off at daycare because they want to go out and spend the day golfing or getting their nails done. You know what I mean? That's not why they invented daycare.

I could do my own nails... I went to beauty school in the 11th grade. But why would I do that now?

I've never had my nails done - look at them!

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

Life is too short to have anybody named McMahon in mine.

I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.

Brand names aren't important to me at all.

I certainly didn't have a nanny.

There was no way I was going to have a baby and hand him over to a nanny.

There is no other parent for Inez. When I was working, I never got to hear about her day or chat about what she was learning or do any reading with her because by the time I got home my nanny had put her to bed.

My wife cooks, I clean. Then I go to practice, come home, and take a two hour nap. I wake up, shave my head, then it's time to ball.