Joe Mantegna Quotes

Certainly 'Lonesome Dove' would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married. I didn't have kids.

My life is about the line, my daughter and my husband.

I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.

First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

I know I wanted to be with somebody and have children. My heart comes before my work.

I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

There is no such thing as 'getting' a guy, house and kids. There is only surrendering to them.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Being a wife and mother are the single most important roles in my life. They take a lot of work, a lot of patience, and help from God and His Word, but if you put in the effort, it's more fulfilling than anything on earth.

I've been married 23 years now. Gone from spending all of my time on the road to being a husband and father.

I think marriage is beautiful, but I have mixed feelings about it.

You can't keep doing the same things when you get married and have a family. You have to slow down. You have to be responsible.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, 'Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?'

We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure.

I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.

Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life.

For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.