Quotes About Priorities

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.

I'm happy with the idea of being a mum first and an actress second - I'm perfectly content for people to think of me as a stay-at-home mum, rather than an actress, if that is their perception.

Right at the peak of my - I went on the Hammer tour and found out I was 6 weeks pregnant, and we had two more months to go. I had to come home and drop that baby and finish out some more shows and then I became a stay-at-home mommy.

When I had David and Emily I was a stay-at-home mum and I only went out to work when Emily was three.

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can't do it later in life, and it's something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill.

I'm a basketball guy. No sitcom guy. I don't care about all that jazz. I care about basketball. It's not me. And I stayed with what I did, and I'm very proud that I did that because I make a great living and I'm lucky and I get to be involved with the thing I truly love, and that's the game of basketball.

I tried to go to university, and I stayed there for one year, but I didn't do much there because I already had a contract with Benfica.

So, quite often, there are hardly any breaks. But that's fine with me as, at one point of time, I had stayed home for months without work. I have taken all the rest I needed then.

Ever since my husband expired, I've been even more careful in bringing up my kids, and stayed away from work.

I love Duke. Wish I could've stayed a second year, but I had other things to do.

Every time I wanted to go out and do an event, go out and do a show, I used to come drop my child at my mother's home and then I stayed back two days and I used to feel, 'I'm so much more comfortable here.'

I have three kids, and that's a big part of staying focused.

Above anything else - above family or job - the main thing is staying sober. That's because without being sober, I don't have a family.

There are other things I want to focus on rather than staying in shape.

There's this idea that when you make a certain amount of money that you should be staying at four-star hotels and taking town cars. And believe me, I will take a town car every day, but there are some things where it's like, 'Is this necessary? Is this important?'

I'm staying focused on what I do on the pitch. What happens off it, it's nice, of course, but football is what I'm most passionate about.

I'm always on my kids so hard about staying in school and getting their education and I ain't got a GED. I wanted to do that for my kids and for my momma.

I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit.

There used to be times when I used to be bothered about box office, director, producer, the actress... If those ticks were marked, I used to say 'yes' to a film. Later on, my focus absolutely changed. Now if a character stays with me for two to three nights, I say 'yes' to the film.

I need to be home more. That's the goal now. I have a steady flow of things people want me to do.

It's always appealed to me do to something that is whatever 'steady' means in this business. That's what I've kind of searched for, because, having a family, it's the best situation.