Angelina Jolie Quotes

I left wrestling to spend more time at home with family.

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.

I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.

I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.

I used to enjoy the spotlight. If I had a day off from filming, I didn't know what to do. Now I enjoy my family time so much, there is this sense of, if it all went away, and I was just a mom, I would love my life.

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

I learned very early that you don't get time back. I'd miss my children growing up, so that's the reason I retired.

I won't play past 30. Why? I want to - I don't know - start a family, live life.

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.

I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.

I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film.

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

I quit 'Magnum' to have a family. It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard to have balance, and this ranch has helped me do that.

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'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.

I just kept making records, touring in Europe a lot, and then I had a baby in 2006, so my life has been very, very much family-orientated.

I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.