Karen Allen Quotes

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've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.

I've got this great home life I want to keep living, and I don't want to neglect it.

I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.

I just don't want to miss anything in the lives of my children while they are still young. It's why I don't audition for leading roles at all and why I say no to some of the supporting roles that I do get offered.

I left wrestling to spend more time at home with family.

I love the WWE, I love the company, but I have two kids, and they want me home. They want me to see their recitals and sporting events, and I want to see them grow and evolve.

I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.

My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancing anything. My husband and my kids absolutely come first, so work is just something where I figure out where it will fit.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my 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.

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.

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

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.

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.

I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all.

I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.