Billie Burke Quotes

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

As a director, obviously you should challenge yourself. It's important, because it's this thing that takes you away from your family for years. You have to really love the thing you're doing. It's very important.

I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.

I gave my all to my career and later to my marriage and motherhood.

I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time.

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father.

Money is great, but it doesn't make your husband stay at home with you.

I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day.

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

A career is a career, but you're a mother until you die.

Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.

There is nothing I feel that connected or passionate about that would take me away from acting.

I love to continue acting. It's my passion.

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.