Rza Quotes

Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.

I almost resent being Charley Moviestar. Yeah, I'm grateful. But it takes me away from my kids.

I know that being in the entertainment business… my first son, I had to sacrifice being away, being on tour a lot and I wasn't really present.

Most people in the world have seen more of me on-screen than my kids have.

I don't want to become a superstar and not see my family anymore.

'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family.

It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

The whole time I was on 'Grey's,' I'm still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son, because he never saw me during that time. By the time he got up, he'd see a dent in his pillow, but by the time I got home, he was already asleep. So for three years, he had a daddy that he never saw because I had to work.

Dad lived such a hectic, hard life on the road, and I didn't get to spend as much time with him as I would have liked.

I didn't see my son walk for the first time. I've left my wife at home with two kids for long periods of time to go to training camps, to foreign countries.

I don't know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it's like to be a kid in that situation. He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom.

You know, you get famous and you work in these weird jobs and you don't have a lot in common with people. But once you have kids, you have everything in common with everybody.

It is sad that the world has gotten more of my time than my children, but my children benefit from it through their financial and economical freedom that I didn't have.

In People magazine, Madonna said her life has been exhausting since she started her world tour. She said there isn't a second of her life that isn't taken up looking after her family or thinking of her show - her day is filled with problems of work and family. Someone should tell her, everyone else calls that, life.

I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?

I enjoy experiencing life. Being a celebrity can really stand in the way of that.

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends with his family. At one point he had thought about being a musician, but he said, I'm not going to do that because I'd be on the road all the time and I wouldn't be with my family.

I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.

The people I meet on the street satisfy my need to make contact with the fans. I love to meet them and I never say no to pictures. If an actor sees that as a curse, I think they need to go and be a roofer for a while. Or try out being a garbage man and seeing how they like it.

My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.