Bonnie Hammer Quotes

I want to work. I'd be unsatisfied if I couldn't be pursuing this. But I love my family more. This is really life.

The family's first, and the career is second. I could get fired from a show. As long as everything's okay with my family, it really would not bother me.

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I like to think that I'm a family man first and a professional athlete second.

I knew that if I worked hard, I could have both - I could have a family, because that was important to me, and I could have a career.

If you ask anybody about their life, usually the first thing they talk about is how their wife is doing, how their kids are, they don't usually say "My job, my job, my job". It's really true. It's usually about your family.

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

There's so much more to life than golf. Family is always first.

I would never put my job before my family.

Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that.

Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.

If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest.

My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

I don't want only a career.

As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.