Dean Cain Quotes

I am a hands-on mother, so I take long gaps between films.

I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.

Any job I choose has to work with my schedule with my kids. I don't want to miss any of my time with them.

I like to think there are a lot of balls in the air, and the kids are not one that I choose to drop. They have been a priority and I have a career that allows for a little more flexibility at times and hours that are quite mom-friendly.

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.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

It's hard to kind of marry your personal life with the theater. It always works so well for my life, and then I had kids, and the thought of missing putting them to bed is a tough one for me. You know, I'm there a lot for them.

I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out.

I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot.

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

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

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

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.

I have said a lot that it's very important to me to make time for my child and make her the priority. I made sacrifices so that I'm around and not traveling for that.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

You want to spend time with your children even though you are tired so you do all those things.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key.

I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.

My wife wants four kids, and obviously if we're having four kids, I need to make sure that the priority is family first.