Alber Elbaz Quotes

It's not that I don't take TV seriously. I take it very seriously. But I've got my priorities straight. Call it my extra gift. Without it, I would be devastated every day in Hollywood.

For me, my work, family, and fans are the most important; rest is just there.

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.

You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

Everyone wants to be happy - people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent, I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It's important to find this balance, and priorities change throughout life.

It's not easy to have it all. Frankly, you know, you have to give as much to the career that the career requires and, at the same time, you have to give as much to the family as the attention that's required.

I believe we are built to have thriving personal lives, and I think we're built to have thriving professional lives. Where the error occurs is when one becomes secondary to the other.

I don't talk about how many cars I'm going to drive, how many houses I've got. I just purely want to be the best I can be.

When you're waking up every day, and it's all about you, I don't consider that to be a way to live your life if you can help it. I think people who know me know that I find time to enjoy myself and not take life - or myself - too seriously at all.

You can get too involved with all the wee things in life, but the most important thing is you're alive and well.

When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.

If you really want to be successful in the business, you have to make that your priority, above family and everything else. It takes up every minute of your life.

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

Do the work, enjoy the work, take it seriously, don't take yourself seriously and keep your head down!

I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.

I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.