Quotes About Priorities

I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

I'm not interested in money.

I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.

When you have children, you can't say you're not interested in money.

I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.

I'm not interested in having the second- or third-largest mall in Cincinnati.

In all honesty, I'm not interested in records.

I'm not interested in doing every role that is coming my way.

I don't mind playing a mom, but if I'm just somebody in someone else's love story, then I'm not interested.

Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.

I've noticed women my age and a little younger, anywhere from 35 to 50, saying, 'Who would want to bring kids into a world like this?' Or, 'I don't want to spend my life that way. I want to do my artwork.' And they're very unapologetically stating this.

Numbers are not important. Muttiah Muralitharan is a legend with 800 wickets. I don't even know if I can play the number of matches he has played. It was nice to get noticed but frankly numbers don't attract me much.

You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

My set on why I won't have kids, and especially the mention of how expensive it is to have kids nowadays, always gets a great response.

A lot of young guys nowadays, when you start talking about guys wanting to get paid or what's best for them, they tend to think about themselves.

I had a wife, kids and a mortgage and my acting career was nowhere, so I was painting and decorating people's homes.

If I hadn't had a baby, a part of me thinks I might have turned up on the red carpets all the time and gone, 'Hi, it's me!' Maybe other people do it because they haven't got kids and they've nowhere else to be. But because I have, I don't feel like that.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

Number one is my faith, number two my family, number three is my friends, and number four, my fans.