Madonna Ciccone Quotes

The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the kids to bed and have an hour and a half in the evening for myself.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.

I have more time to work; I just do. Because once your kids are up and running, that frees you up a good 20, 30, hours a week.

I always feel like I want more time with my kids. But I reject the notion that you can't have it all. I think you can: just not necessarily in abundance.

Sometimes it's more tiring being at home with your child than it is being at work! But I thrive on variety, so if you can get a good balance in your life, then I think that's the key.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

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'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.

To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself.

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.

I'm a good dad and a fair husband and I work quite a bit. That takes up a fair amount of time.

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.

I have a kid and a husband and my family, and it's important to live the real life. I don't want to offer my whole life to cinema. It's only cinema.

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.

I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can't do that anymore.

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.

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

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.