Allan Holdsworth Quotes

You can still love your job and feel guilty. You can still love your child and feel guilty. There's a lot of grey in that. It's about being conscious when you are spending time with your kids, being with them in the moment.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

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 did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.

I've learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn't the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and Jeffrey was screaming that he didn't want me to. You have to give yourself permission to let go of the guilt.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

As a mom, I think you always wonder if you could be doing more.

I'm trying to be better for my son. And regretting every moment that I'm not spending with him.

Computers shouldn't be parents, but they are. Please, spend time with your kids. If you don't want to, then I don't want to. It might hurt you to discipline your offspring, but it saves the child from being disciplined later by someone less forgiving. Like a criminal court judge. If you don't spank your child, someone else will.

I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day with my daughter.

The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.