Quotes About Priorities

When I was working actively, I used to be in the studios for 12 hours. I didn't have any time for my family.

Study hard, but party harder.

To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.

I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.

When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.

I tell my kids all the time, 'I want you to be a great athlete, I want you to be great academically, I want you to achieve a lot of things, but mostly I want you to be a great person. If none of the other stuff happens and you're a great person, then I'm okay with anything else that happens in your life - that's the highest standard.'

It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care.

I don't even know how much money I've spent on all of this stuff... Just in plates and bars alone, it's literally a ridiculous amount of money I've spent on those. And to me it doesn't matter. It's money that I've gladly spent.

People always tell me the next stage of my career means moving to New York, but I never will. I don't care how that affects my career, and I think it's stupid that it would.

I'm for comfort, not for style.

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.

I personally didn't subscribe to drastically changing our lives as a result of having children. Our children are our world, but I truly believe that it's healthier to invite children into your life instead of making everything about them.

Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.

The Democrats' obsession with scandal is out of touch and decadent. People want substance, not scandal.

If something substantial comes my way - a very meaty and major role - which I would love to do, then of course one can make time for that.

For a suburban man aged 30 to 40, hell is going clothing shopping on a Saturday afternoon. There are about 5,000 other things they would put on the list ahead of clothes shopping.

When Dad stopped playing in a rock band and was done chasing that dream, he devoted himself to his family. I would love to do the same thing - just without driving a 1991 Suburban and wearing sweatpants, a fanny pack, and six-year-old Pumas.

I know what it's like to do whatever you need to do to make sure that your kids are happy and well and succeed.

Half the time, the very thing you think that's going to destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to anybody with skeletons is dust them off every now and then—as long as your closet ain't full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

And then… I stopped running. Why do we stop doing the very things that nurture us physically and emotionally, and feed our spiritual growth? It's a big question, one always worth contemplating. At this particular time, I stopped running because I was drawn so fully into my work that my focus narrowed and I shut out some of the things that truly mattered most. The desire to achieve in my career became all-consuming, and for a while, I lost my sense of balance

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.