Ron Carlson Quotes

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live.

Having my son has changed so much of what I dream about. It used to be about business, business, what's the next deal? What's the next movie? Now it's about him.

Before, I would spend all my hours at training, come home, sleep, eat, watch football, sleep, and go back to training the next day. Now I do the school run, train, pick up my daughter. I am living in the real world. I am a father now. That has given me more satisfaction than football.

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

Having children really changes your priorities.

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

When you have one kid, you feel like you can jet set around, and you can throw him on the hip, and you get your life done. You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious - I am responsible for two people now.

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

Til marriage and motherhood happened, I was devoted to my work. I didn't see anything beyond it.

When you become a parent, obviously it changes your life in so many ways.

Things change when you have children; your priorities change.

Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

Well, I think anybody who's had a baby can tell you that once you have a baby, they kind of become the main focus. I don't think there's gonna be a lot of room for anything else.

I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

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

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

Kids really take you out of yourself, and your priorities become really clear. With acting and the business, you don't really have priorities. You have no idea what each day or week's going to be like.

Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.