Mark Harmon Quotes

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.

I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

With the kids around, this is a different world to me. I spend a lot of time with them till they go to their playschool. I wake up early, have breakfast with them. I come back from work and am with them again till they go to bed by 10 P.M. Touch wood, this is what I wanted always.

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 the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

When I'm home, I'm just mom. We're a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.

I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

I don't have a life, really. I take my kids to school, and I go home, and I write. Then I go pick my kids up, make them dinner, put them to bed, and write some more.

I think I'll just become a full-time dad, at home, with my family.

Being mothers, we try to stay home as much as possible and attend to the children.

When I'm in San Diego, it's carpools and making dinner and getting the kids to bed. It's real life.

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.

For me, having it all doesn't mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren't kids running around as I'm trying to cook my husband something special.

I want to do the basic things, like putting my daughter to bed. It's the sweetest thing.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.

I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.