When they told me I had to have a heart operation, my main memory is standing in my kitchen and thinking what I would really miss was my little tea towel. Not for one minute did I think, 'Oh, I'm going to really miss performing.' The things you're going to miss are your wife, your egg cup, your seat that you sit in to watch TV.
A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.
I don’t have to live with the American People, but I do have to live with Lou (his wife).
I won't play past 30. Why? I want to - I don't know - start a family, live life.
Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.
Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or even my girlfriends who are also my family, I put them first no matter what. And it makes it easy to then juggle everything else because it's never a question.
The only two things that I think about in life is my family and golf. That's all I want to think about.
I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.
I think your significant other should be way more important than your work. Personally, I love working. I don't know that I'd say I'm a workaholic because I also love maxing and relaxing.
My first priority is my family. I am human. But my whole family knows what my priority is. Family is always first. But my work is under nothing else, except God.
At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
Just like any other human being is concerned about his or her personal life, I also need to think about my personal life.
Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.
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.
So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.
If I had done some of the movies that I was offered as an actor - and very good movies, by the way, and some of them big moneymakers - I don't know that I ever would have taken what was the concentration or the time to do the movies that I produced. 'Reds' is a good example, but 'Shampoo' is also an example, and so was 'Heaven Can Wait.'
Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.
I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.
Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.
Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?
