John Steinbeck Quotes

I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.

Acting wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

I wanted to have a home where I could go home and unlock my door and go in and be settled. I was tired of being a gypsy.

It's all about balance, and I have so much happiness in my career and am fortunate to travel the world and see so many amazing things - it will also be nice to be anchored to something grounded and in the same place. Raising a family will be a wonderful part of that.

I've spent the last 10 years constantly touring and haven't had much reason to stick around anywhere. I'm 34 now, and I've got a girlfriend and a house and two cats. I don't want to run away; I like where I'm at.

I'm an adopted Mancunian. This city has grown on me. I have a wife from Manchester and have three kids who think they are more Mancuniuan than anything else, which is a problem I need to address!

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

No matter how nice a hotel is, it's not home.

It's natural that I want to recreate a home.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl.

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be back.

I'll always have a house in London; I'll always call it my home. There might be moments when I get to go and work in different parts of the world, but I'll always come back here.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me.

After living out of a suitcase for years, it's a feeling of peace to wake up in the night and know where I am.

I have a fairly normal domestic life.

Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

I want to be a dad, first and foremost. I want to be a good father. I've spent so much of my life on the move and travelling around the world that just to set up a home for my family and be a good dad is something that motivates me.

Brantford was the fixed point of my universe, growing up. Both sets of grandparents lived there, with various cousins and uncles and aunts, and no matter how far we'd moved off, we came back there for regular visits. In a way no other houses have ever been, my grandparents' houses were 'home,' and the sale of the last of those houses was hard.