Anthony Edwards Quotes

I went home every night to New Jersey - or most nights - and to help with the six-grade math homework or to make breakfast in the morning, just to make sure that that was there. When I was single and didn't have children, I used to laugh at this notion of quality time.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

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.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

I, as a mom, wanted to be really present for my son in the first couple of years, because I know that those years are very important for a kid. So I decided not to work during that period.

It doesn't matter how late you get home or how wired you are, you still wake up early with your kids. That's the most important thing you do in a day, whether or not you're in a hit Broadway show.

I don't get that with the nannies. What's your point if you have a child and you aren't raising it?

I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the morning when they're waking up. I like to practice piano with them. I like to be there at supper. I need them as much as they need me. Working is not as important to me as being a mother is.

I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

When I'm home, I've got the kind of time that other dads who live there full time don't have. I can go and have lunch with my kids at school and that sort of thing.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

My wife wants four kids, and obviously if we're having four kids, I need to make sure that the priority is family first.

I never spend more than a week away from the children.

I went to every sports contest for my kids. I turned off my cell phone at 8 P.M. I did have to travel relentlessly and had some nights at black tie events. But when I was home, I was home.

Like some people they're into nannies and the whole social life and they don't spend time with their kids. I'm always with my kids.

I know what I wanna be and what I don't wanna be, which is an absent parent. I wanna be hands-on.