Quotes About Values

If you'd rather spend the holidays with your friends or your dog or digging wells in Kenya than with your family, do it.

Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?'

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.

When you grew up in a household where mom would keep the extra ketchup packets from McDonald's and keep them in a drawer just in case there came a day when you couldn't afford to buy ketchup anymore, that gets ingrained in you.

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person. If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

Im very aware of how lucky I was to be paid to kick a football around. But Ill never change. You can change your lifestyle, but if money changes you, youve got a problem.

It's always good to have friends, but it's really about family. When you're younger, that isn't always clear. With friends it's about going out and kicking it. You learn that's not where it ends up.

Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

I've always been the same since I was a kid, maybe it was the way I was brought up, but I've never liked arrogant people.

The money never mattered. I'm not kidding you. It hasn't really brought me any kind of happiness.

You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

Just because I'm a lot wealthier now doesn't mean I want my kids to grow up differently to how I did.

I don't accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.

I've never played the jack-it-up kinda game; that's just not who I am.

I think life is a little more basic here in Australia. There aren't so many distractions. People seem to feel they can be kinder with each other here, I think, to a greater extent than in the States.

I look for kindness, honestly, integrity, intelligence, humor and good values, and of course, a fun, loving guy! And yes, I believe he exists!

You've got a guy sitting in a big house, making $5 million a year, saying he does not want to sacrifice his time. That is not a kindred spirit to me.

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

I don't kiss on the first date. My friends always make fun of me for that! But I will hold hands.

From the time I entered the industry, I have always been clear about certain things - no short clothes, no kissing, no bikinis. Nobody comes to me with such roles. And I have no dearth of work.