Grounded Quotes

You try to get out there and live. I've always had good friends who've been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I've never felt attached to the film industry.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.

It's a good harsh reality, because my family keeps me very grounded.

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.

My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience - both my own and that of my family - in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

I try and have family time, all the time, so you know, I get to see them a lot. And I'm always with my friends, my boyfriend, it helps me keep grounded and kind of sane.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.

Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard.

When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.

It keeps you grounded, you lead a regular life and you appreciate things more.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

I can certainly be part of the socialite group and walk those carpets every day, but I choose not to because I prefer to be grounded. You can't be at home and on the red carpet.

I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.