Jonathan Agnew Quotes

I travel a lot and rarely make it home to Seattle.

I didn't enjoy my college life in Noida much because I was quite disoriented there, since I was staying away from my family.

I work every day hard. I put my body through hell. Let me tell you, every year, seven months of the year, I don't see my family. Year in, year out. I miss my kids. Kid's birthdays, anniversaries. I'll never be able to go back and be with my family.

Touring is such a major sacrifice, especially as you get older, to be away from friends and family and home and any sort of routine or home comforts.

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.

When you're doing movies, you're traveling all over the world and you really can't be home.

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.

I've spent my whole life in airports. I don't come home but every two and a half months, which is pretty crazy.

I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man.

I'll spend a couple of days in Paris, a couple back in London, some time at the factory in Italy... I like travelling, but it can be a struggle to get home for weekends.

This is my life! I'm not getting a lot of sleep, but I am getting a lot of frequent-flyer miles.

I think the biggest challenge when I'm on the road is being away from my family.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.

I'm on the road so much that I don't get to spend as much time there as I would like.

My training has always been a priority; whatever needs to be done will get done first before anything else. Social life will come after that. I still love being around friends and family, but with all the travelling overseas, it makes it very tough to fit in.

With any career you're in, there's always a life outside of your career, and that's one thing when you're on the road 300 days of the year, you start missing your family, you miss your friends, you miss all the things you enjoy in life like going to the movies, museums.

I've been on loads of promotional trips in so many other countries, and most of the time, you just want to go home.