Elizabeth Debicki Quotes

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.

I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.

We would finish dinner, and then we'd all sit around as a family and watch 'Roseanne.' That was a big one.

I've got children and it's still this one thing that I feel incredibly proud about, when my children are in the playground with their friends and they know about 'Doctor Who'. It's a great feeling. I can sit down with them and watch the new 'Doctor' with my kids.

I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.

When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.

My oldest son started to like 'South Park' and 'Family Guy,' so we'd watch together so I could spend time with him.

When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day.

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.

So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.

With my child, I hardly watch TV now.

I am a partisan for conversation. To make room for it, I see some first, deliberate steps. At home, we can create sacred spaces: the kitchen, the dining room. We can make our cars 'device-free zones.' We can demonstrate the value of conversation to our children. And we can do the same thing at work.

When you have kids, you don't really watch TV anymore, and when I do, I binge-watch box sets of 'Breaking Bad.'

My brothers and I grew up in a time where talking, storytelling, telling jokes was sometimes all you had. It wasn't like today, with so many options and portability.

When the game is finished, it's completely finished. I'm with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, 'Oh, did you see the game?' and I say, 'No, I didn't see the game'. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.

Being away a lot on tour means that my family has to suffer an inordinate amount of overcompensation, as I return home with skewed ideas of what counts as quality time. I will force everyone into a cinema trip, insistent that three hours in the dark in silence is the perfect way for us all to re-engage.

Any time you work with your son, it's special.

I live by myself, so I derive a lot of joy from being with my friends and their families.

To film with our family is awesome - you have to hang out with each other, and I love that because I hate being alone.

Life is short, and time just flies by, so I love those moments when we're all sitting around the table together laughing and joking.

Would be a dream to play with family.

Whenever I see my family, we always drink wine and play cards together.