Quotes About Priorities

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

It's hard to balance work and family.

For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.

I have family, I work with a lot of friends, but you'll never find me saying, "Hey, let's get a drink at 8:30 [pm]."

It breaks my heart when couples focus more on being wed than being married. Two become one doesn't happen without work, humility, and sacrifice.

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.

I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.

I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.

It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.

I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.

Every day after work, my mom and I go shopping. My dad is about to kill me. I say, We need it, daddy!

I do enjoy wearing a little heel when I'm at work, but when I'm running around with my son, it's a different story!

I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

If I were to find something that is going to be more important to me than fashion - that would be work and love - then I probably would let go. That's a possibility. But fashion is an addiction.

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.