N. T. Rama Rao Jr. Quotes

Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new perspective and have something else, my family, not just being a mom but being a part of an incredible family of my own, it makes me have a different perspective on life that I think is richer.

We don't go to parties much. I am very serious about my work. But I also have two children, and I wanted to do that job well.

Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.

I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.

I'm a good dad and a fair husband, and I work quite a bit.

I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.

I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

My heart grows every day through struggling and love of my kids. It helps balance everything else - the work and the world. It helps keep me grounded and in perspective of what is really meaningful to me.

I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.

Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

My work and my family are very important to me.

I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.

I like to think that I'm a family man first and a professional athlete second.

When you work on a story like the Weinstein investigation, every other non-critical part of your life disappears. For months and months and months, my life basically consisted of my work and my kids, my work and my kids.

I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It's fun, it's a great job, but it's work.

At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?

My children came along at a perfect time in my life. My career was soaring, and they didn't care who I thought I was. They just wanted to eat. It brought me down to earth.

My parents, I've always said, are two of the hardest working people I know.

My real priorities were my family - my kids and Bruce - and my work with the E Street Band.