Chris Kirkpatrick Quotes

I didn't have children because I was passionate about having my career.

I'm concentrating on my career, which is my top priority. The rest will follow eventually.

I have to put my career first.

I've always put my career first, and it has been difficult on my personal life.

If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.

I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.

I am married to work.

I gave up my whole life to my career.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things; I just didn't think about them.

I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.

Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

I wouldn't give up my career for somebody. The most important thing to me is my work, and reaching people through my work. It's so important to me. It's my passion.

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.

I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

Because I don't do five films a year, people maybe think that acting is not essential to my life. But if I worked any more than I do, I'd have no personal life.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of - I wouldn't call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

Those who talk about the sacrifices that they make throughout a career, I do not understand too much. For me, the real sacrifice would be getting up early in the morning to work.

I'm very career-driven.

I just don't really think of career. I've never been driven by career.

It sounds crazy, but I'm so married to my work that I rarely meet new people.

In 1980, after 10 years at 'The Times,' I was at a crossroads in my personal life. I loved my family, but I was also so obsessive about my work that I found myself devoting more and more time to it. I wanted to be everywhere there was a good story, and that meant I had to choose between that and being with the family on important days.

My career is more important than girls.