Terry Semel Quotes

The time away from the family is the hardest part of the job. I have a little apartment in D.C., and I have to tell you, I'm happy when I get to go home to Georgia. My wife and I are also talking about whether we can afford the apartment or not. If not, I guess I'd sleep in my office like a lot of my colleagues do.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

When I signed for Vancouver, it was funny because my mom didn't really want me to move away. She was concerned about all my schooling.

I'm from New Jersey. But I went to school in Los Angeles and all across the country. So, I can totally connect with missing home.

I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

I come back home almost every weekend, or my wife comes up every other weekend to Vancouver. So, in that sense, we make it work. It's just a great city. It's a great country. They've been good to me, and I have no problems being up there.

I kind of left everyone behind in Australia - all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend.

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

Not everybody even gets to live with their own family because they have to go to L.A. or New York or wherever to work and find a job and leave their family back home. But every day, I get to work with my family - if I want to.

I do live in a couple of worlds. My home is in Kentucky. I fly out to Los Angeles when I'm working.

Ireland's always going to be my home, but so much is filmed in L.A., so you have to spend time out here.

When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

When you leave your country, it's hard to leave your family over there. My whole family is in Venezuela.

My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It's not just the job. A lot of people don't get that. My life is here.

I think the biggest challenge when I'm on the road is being away from my family.

I work out in the Caribbean for half the year, playing a detective who's really into science. Anybody who knows me will tell you that's a dream come true. But it's tough for my family. We only get to see each other every two and a half to three weeks.

I've no desire to be away from my family for 16 hours a day.

We spend on average 220 days of the year out of the country. It's a long time to be away from your family especially when your children are growing up.

I don't love traveling, because I'm never home. It's hard when you have a family.