Michael Lewis Quotes

My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I had considered my job to be a wife and mother, then I would have been pretty good at it. But I didn't consider it a job. I thought it was like brushing your teeth - it's not fun, it's just something you do to keep your teeth from falling out.

The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.

For me, having it all doesn't mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren't kids running around as I'm trying to cook my husband something special.

I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

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

What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.

The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.

I'm a good dad and a fair husband and I work quite a bit. That takes up a fair amount of time.

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.

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

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.

Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.

I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.