I’ve been blessed with the most awesome family life and I have a great support system.
Food was always such an important part of my family life when I was growing up.
As an actor, I’m in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn’t fit in with family life, there’s more flexibility.
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
Having the responsibilities of family life forced me to drown out office politics and focus on delivering my best at home and work.
Getting married has certainly made a massive difference to my own life. So I am committed to giving support for family finances and having the right policies for work-life balance that make it easier for couples to have a rich family life.
There is no textbook guide to family life. You just have to try to find a way through it.
We had quite an unconventional family life because my parents ran a Chinese restaurant.
Every performer has to decide for themselves whether they feel they can combine family life and their performing life, and they have to establish a division that makes them happy. I never thought it would be a problem and it hasn’t been.
I arrange it by working four days away from home, and three days at home with the family, so I work four long days rather than five shorter. But it’s hard because everything is on hold. We have to restore the family life during the weekends.
I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I’m stranded in an airport lobby – I write. If I have to wait in a doctor’s office – I write. If I have a morning or evening to myself – I write.
You just manage. It’s all about balance. You have to play football and be professional. You come home and you have family life.
Because I have a dog, it’s easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird ‘Mastermind’-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I’ve no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.
When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read ‘Family Life’, everything has an even white tone. It is almost like when you paint on paper, and you can see the paper through the paint.
When you’re dealing with students who are at risk, who come from a place like LeBron and myself, you have to really focus on the whole student. And that means their parents, their family life, their home life, food.
The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.
A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land.
From my own point of view, I went to college in the States. I am very comfortable on the PGA Tour. I have made my family life over there. It would be a big upheaval for me to play full time in Europe, which is why I have decided that I am going to play mostly in the U.S. but still support Europe when it is possible.
Why, on my mother’s birthday, am I thinking about ‘Father Knows Best?’ At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.
I was a regular kid with a normal family life.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
I’ve worked with Tim Burton five times, and it’s just like being part of a family; life doesn’t get much better than that.
Well, I think one of the big things wrong with kids these days, a lot of them don’t have a family. A lot of them got one parent and there’s quite a few that don’t have any parents and that’s where the whole problem is. There’s no family life, no father to slap ’em around when they need it.
I definitely have a happy marriage and family life.
When you have children, you don’t have downtime, but I have a family life that is rich and fulfiling.
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I’m constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I’ve been on.
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