Quotes About Sacrifice

I've always put my career first, and it has been difficult on my personal life.

When you're doing eight shows a week, you don't have much of a personal life.

I have no personal life.

Extreme success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

The worst form of violence is the assault on uniformed personnel.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.

I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.

I feel motherhood is the best phase in every woman's life.

Canada has been phenomenal to myself, my brother, my sister, their kids, my parents. They came there. They worked very hard. They came with a great education, very good heads on their shoulders with the simple thought of going there with almost nothing and just saying, 'We're doing this to give our kids the best opportunity possible.'

Part of the problem when I was doing 'How I Learned to Drive' is I would see my kids one night a week for six months, and that was just too hard. We moved to Philadelphia after we lost our house in the earthquake, the '94 Northridge earthquake.

The best rule for philanthropy is to give until it hurts, as much as you can, because none of us can get through life all by ourselves.

The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

As the oldest I was a daddy's girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean.

I wore myself out physically and mentally over my career, and I couldn't be there for my daughters in ways I should have been.

'Battle: Los Angeles' - I've got to say this was easily one of the most physically trying things that I've ever done in my life because I play a Marine in the film, and they had us training with real live Marines for, like, three weeks. It gave me a whole new respect for just the armed forces, period.

As actors, we exhaust ourselves emotionally and physically, which no one sees.

I haven't been an actor who's been able to pick and choose roles, and being a family man, it's been about putting food on the table.

I've led a career of having to take work to see my family, over picking and choosing, instead of 'I need food on the table and I don't know how I'm going to pay the mortgage.'

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most.

I have a pile of scripts at home that I love. Some of them are hard to get made. We have to give up stuff. It's hard to get movies made.