Rachael Leigh Quotes

I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

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

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn't really agree with.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.

I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.

When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

Wherever the career wasn't going the way I wanted it to, I would experience those disappointments, and I would put them somewhere where I could say, 'Come on now, you're still working. Keep your focus where it belongs.'

I focus every day on my career.

It can be a detriment to yourself to not be working, but at the same time, you want to hold true to what you're wanting to be working on.

When I was in Class XI, I started preparing for medical college, and after that, the Miss India pageant.

You can always go back, to coaching. You can't go back to spending time with your family.

I'm focused on football and my career. No one really has to doubt that. Outside, I do other things that make me happy.

I'm a big girl. I prioritize. I want to be acting, I want to be singing, but there will be time for that.

I needed to focus on what is good for my career long-term and when you decide to do something - you stay true to yourself.