David Draiman Quotes

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.

I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home.

Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

I like to stay home with my family.

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

My day rotates around my family. I am very lucky.

I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it's getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.

Jason's got a family, so it's difficult for us to get together.

I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out. I have a great family and we spend all our time together. I work hard and play hard with them.

It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas.

I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance.

I love being with my family and just being a regular person.

When I'm by myself, I'm really cool and nice to everyone, but then the whole paparazzi thing? If you see me with my kids, I change.

I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.

The toughest thing about making movies is being apart from your family. One of the things I try my best to do is call my wife every day to keep up to speed with what's going on in her life. And tell her what's going on with mine.

It's hard to kind of marry your personal life with the theater. It always works so well for my life, and then I had kids, and the thought of missing putting them to bed is a tough one for me. You know, I'm there a lot for them.

The moment we finished shooting for 'Bruce Lee,' my wife Upasana reminded of a pending holiday.

I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.

I'm not working in football. Basically, I'm a father with two kids and taking some time for myself. I played for 25 years, and I believe I need some space for myself.

I've got a family, and I get to enjoy my family, and I get to do different things, trying the movie thing a little bit.