Timothy Griffin Quotes

My day rotates around my family. I am very lucky.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service. And for the last 17 years, ever since my husband started running for president, I have been in the spotlight, working hard. And this job is incredibly all-encompassing. So I think I'm looking forward to maybe taking some time off

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do.

I have a kid and a husband and my family, and it's important to live the real life. I don't want to offer my whole life to cinema. It's only cinema.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

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

It's hard to kind of marry your personal life with the theater. It always works so well for my life, and then I had kids, and the thought of missing putting them to bed is a tough one for me. You know, I'm there a lot for them.

I'm not working in football. Basically, I'm a father with two kids and taking some time for myself. I played for 25 years, and I believe I need some space for myself.

Family and personal life always come first and career second.

When I was not working, when our children were little, our life was all about our kids and our relationship. We didn't spend tons of time going off and spending time with friends and going on vacations alone.

Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband.

I have my life on the field, but when I finish that, I want a quiet life with my family.

Although I have a busy work schedule, I make sure I spend time with my family and create a balance between my work and family life.

I am a mom as well as a senator!

I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!