Richard Briers Quotes

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

I look at my kids and I feel I'm at the precipice of this job, like just kind of tipping over the other side. I'm very conscious of time I guess is what I want to say, and I want to be there as long as I can with my kids, and I also want to make sure I do all the things that are important to me.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

I am an aging Girl Scout.

My family life is incredibly important to me. I want to be with them as much as I can. I try to work in New York, or I work in the summer time when my family can come with me.

You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.

I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

I don't like to be away from my family for long periods.

I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.

Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such.

My family's the most important thing in my life.

When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious.

It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.

I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.

After I retire, for some time at least, I will spend my time with my grandchildren and my family members, because all these years, 50 years, I have not been able to give my time to them.

People in politics always say they're spending time with their family, but in my case, it's a big family. We got 23 grandkids, so I get to spend a lotta time with them, and it's extraordinarily enjoyable.

I work very hard, but I also really enjoy time with my family as well. So I take everything as it comes, but I really am very selfish about my family time.

Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband.