Bob Balaban Quotes

Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.

I have a lot of cousins that I'm very close to.

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.

My family is the most important thing to me.

My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.

Being a son, brother, uncle and brother-in-law is all I care about.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

I've got a pretty close bond with everyone in my family. I've got a brother and a sister whom I'm very close to, and my parents have always been the world's best parents.

I've got my feet on the ground because I've got a lovely family waiting for me when I get home, even though they're not my flesh and blood. I haven't got children. That's my only regret, I suppose.

When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.

My family's the most important thing in my life.

My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.

I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

The relationships I've had with my wife and children are what mean the most to me.

I really feel my family is my priority.

I've always been close to my family. I've got a lot of nieces and nephews, but I'm a good uncle.

My family mean a lot to me, but I guess that's like it is with every other player.

We've all been that young love, trying to impress the in-laws or having these crazy cousins that we're related to by blood - we can't choose them as sort of friends, but they're there.

We have four grown children and five grandchildren... so far! So, as you can imagine, family is extremely important to us.

My contact with my dad's side of my family got less after we stopped living together, but they were in my life.

I've got good family support.

I'm a family man. I really enjoy being with my family.