Derek Cianfrance Quotes

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.

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 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.

I'm not doing anything Jack Nicholson turned down. Any part that required a character distanced from myself would have been a reach. But the one thing I've always done well at, and I'm most devoted to, is my children.

I like to think that I'm a family man first and a professional athlete second.

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

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.

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.

As much as possible, I put my family first.

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

It's a sacrifice for me. It's not really something I want to do. I don't love the idea of being a U.S. senator; I love the idea of being a mother.

I don't turn off being a dad. It supersedes being a baseball player.

For me, my work, family, and fans are the most important; rest is just there.

My wife and son are my world and being there for them in every way possible is the only thing that matters to me... that and my work.

I gave my all to my career and later to my marriage and motherhood.

I have dedicated myself to development of the state and hardly get time to spend with my family.

When you have children your life - this is my job and that's my life. So it's a totally different thing. They're my priority, they have to be, and they always will be. I have to do them first. So this always gets pushed in the back.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

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 son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

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

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

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.