Kenan Thompson Quotes

'Grey's Anatomy' has given me a lot of security, especially as my kids have grown older. Plus, for the last eight years, I didn't have to get on a plane and go to do a job out of town or in another part of the world.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

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

I want to have money so I can spend it having children. I want to have three or four and be a really good mother and make sure they have a really brilliant life with parents who are not struggling.

As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.

First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability.

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.

I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.

I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

I have a very, very normal life. I really do - with the exception of being very lucky and privileged. I have two children, a dog, and a husband. We live in New York, the kids go to school, and we're fortunate that we have flexible schedules. I like that. That's what I want.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Women who maintain jobs outside their homes … weaken family life, endanger their own marital happiness, rob themselves of man’s protective capabilities, and by consequence decrease the number of children. The principal evil in women’s work is that it alienates the life of the wife from the life of the husband …

Getting married has certainly made a massive difference to my own life. So I am committed to giving support for family finances and having the right policies for work-life balance that make it easier for couples to have a rich family life.

The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.