Jill Scott Quotes

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Would I want Johnny Depp's career? Sure! But do I want all the trappings and all the stuff that comes with that? I don't know. It's a pretty serious trade off. Can you prevent it? Probably not.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

During my days as a cricketer, I used to be so involved with the game, I never bothered to look after my family.

You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

Pursuing music eats into your life to the point where there is no space left for anything else. You are lucky if you find a partner who is able to understand that, but even then, they will only understand it for a while, and then things get - you know, difficult.

That's one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don't have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

We all have to find a cause we believe in and pursue it. Sometimes it may cost you your job, your personal life, your love life, etc.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

Nothing comes without a price.

Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

Every advantage has its tax.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

I'm pretty busy in my life and I'm very aware of what it takes to direct a movie. It takes a lot out of you; it takes a lot out of the rest of your life, from other people in your life. I don't lie around hungering for that consumption very often.

Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?"

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

One of the reasons that I came forward and sort burned of my life to the ground, and I can't go back and see my family in the United States - I obviously lost my job, which I was quite comfortable with. I lost my home. It was because I felt there was no alternative.

Which would prove I'm a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people i love?