Alex Trebek Quotes

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.

Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.

Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not the most interesting thing in my life anymore.

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very different way of looking at the world and experiencing the world. But later in your 30s, when you have children, a career, career obstacles, mortgages, car payments and relationships, you have to negotiate; that's a very different life.

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it's less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

Sleeping on people's floors when you're 22 is fine. But when you get your life in order and have a family you want to keep and a certain level of health, touring bigger means you can keep going for longer.

I feel like I've lived two or three completely different lives. At 33, I'm quite reflective and have the perspective you get in your old age when you have been through the losses of life.

You're investing in a different part of your life that is really important. It's not as important when you're a kid and you don't require sleep, and you don't get hung over, and you can fire on all cylinders. At 32 I don't consider myself old by any means, but you just find yourself in a place where you can't do everything the way you once did, and you have to take time to reflect and I think that's really important, because you get to appreciate what you have, and to enjoy it.

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.