Jonathan Sacks Quotes

I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.

I had an amazing mother. She raised nine kids, practically as a single parent, which is the hardest thing in the world. Nine of us! Day in and day out. She had to make sure we all had an education and that we all felt loved.

When you finally have kids, you realize how selfish you are. I think we are naturally selfish beings. When you have kids, that can kind of be a shock at first. I think just trying to make time for yourself is very hard. Especially now that I have 3, finding that time can be very difficult.

Before children, it's kind of easy to be solipsistic - you and your wife are in this hermetic little thing, and your own desires, wants, needs, tastes dictate your choices. Then, suddenly, all of that's gone.

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.

I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.

It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

I have said a lot that it's very important to me to make time for my child and make her the priority. I made sacrifices so that I'm around and not traveling for that.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

I'm much more aware of how distraught my father could be internally. That was normal to me - the obsession with work, the crazy hours - and when I watch it on screen I really see how enveloped he was by show business to the point where he didn't develop much of another life. Everything was show business to him.

Everything I do is for my children.

When you're doing eight shows a week, you don't have much of a personal life.

I encourage women who are starting families to think about the five-year horizon. The first few years of parenthood are really hard, but if you stick it out, it gets easier.

I keep my children safe and protected from all my baggage. They get to have a normal childhood, and they're not affected by my life.

Now that I'm a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

I've dedicated my life to my family.

~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~