Mark Kelly Quotes

I don't love acting enough to give up my life.

In my younger days, sometimes family and personal life came second to my ambition.

There is a lot of opportunity - wonderful, amazing things, like a dream. But I've got a family, and it's not just about my dreams.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

That my business success is equal to my personal life.

Having grown up on 'Star Trek,' I've had one great dream since childhood, and that is to see my life end somewhere other than here on Earth.

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

I can remember walking on the moon.

I've learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn't the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are.

I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.

During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.

Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.

I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.

I remember looking at the moon as an 8-year-old and marveling that there were two astronauts in a lander on the surface, getting ready to go out and actually walk. That settled it for me: I knew I was going to at least try to become an astronaut. I wanted to be like those guys.

That's really why I want to go to space - I want to be weightless for so long that it gets boring.

I'm an actor doing a job, but I'm also living a life.

That's one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don't have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

I'm happy here on the surface of the earth. If space travel ever got to be as simple as jet travel today, yeah, I'd take a jet flight to the moon.

Most people, when they think about going into medicine, they think they have to give up their lives, and I was the prime example that you didn't need to do that.

I would always consider flying in space again, without a question.

Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

Flying in space is a privilege, whether it's the first time or the fourth time.