Melissa Joan Hart Quotes

I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

It's especially important for my little girl to see her papa at work.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

I love working. If somebody took away my jobs, I don't know what I would do. I'm just the kind of person who has to stay busy.

I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

My father was brought up in a theatrical background, just as I was, and his father instilled in him the need to do everything properly and take responsibility for money.

My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do.

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.

From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.