Quotes About Priorities

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

My dad worked every day. I didn't get into show business to work every day. So the fact that most days I get to like, spend really good time with my kids - that's what success is to me.

If you're smart you're just gonna be all about the work. But as a young person, you want to going out to clubs and doing all the stuff. I'm just glad I survived it.

I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

Whatever consequences come as a result, in terms of work, I'm fully prepared to embrace because it's a priority to me to be a mother.

It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.

I was a good student. By 8th grade, you've basically learned everything. By senior year, we was drinking, we was kickin' it, we was rapping. It wasn't really like business, hard work.

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.

Every time I call my baby and ask to get a date, my boss says, no dice son, you gotta work late.

At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.

Between work and your kids and your spouse or whatever situation you have in your life. I think balancing all of that seems to be a huge situation.

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends.

The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.

My body of work means nothing to me

Work travel for me, which is - I hate to say it - more enjoyable now that I have kids.