Sean Bean Quotes

The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

For me, if I'm away from my son for more than 48 hours, I'm crabby.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often.

Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

I wasn't able to see my son as much as I wanted. I thought it would be easy living on my own, do what I want and then travel up to Manchester to see my son, but it wasn't like that.

My contact with my dad's side of my family got less after we stopped living together, but they were in my life.

I didn't see my son walk for the first time. I've left my wife at home with two kids for long periods of time to go to training camps, to foreign countries.

I work every day, and every year I spend seven months away from my family. I miss my kids' birthdays, and those are times I will never be able to go back on and share with them. That kills me.

My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.

Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.

My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.

I never thought I'd end up living in Los Angeles while my children grew up in Britain, but here I am, and we are all making the best of it.

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

We had people and we exported them faster than cattle, and like cattle, and while fathers, sons, and daughters cried all the way to the train and the bus and the ship, the flow back of emigrant cheques and money orders evaporated the maternal and wifely tears so that on the threshold of the Post Office or the Hibernian Bank below in main street you would make a little more with every passing week.

I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.

When Radar goes home, Peg and Erin go down to meet him. Erin sees Radar in uniform and calls him Daddy. It so incredibly perfectly captured the heartbreak of being away from your child who was growing up without you.

My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a working mum. But I found it very hard to be away from my family, even for short periods of time.

The most that hurts is I couldn't see my kids growing up. They grow and go. Most of the time, I'm in training camps. I couldn't see that happening. This hurts me.

That's the real work, being away from my loved ones, my family, my household. There's nothing that's hurt any more than being away from my little girl and missing days, but I'm lucky.

My mom would drive me from Cleveland to New York City and use my dad's hotel points for auditions. They were the most supportive parents that I could have. Without them, I wouldn't have gotten anywhere.

There's families all across the country that miss people, but there's nothing like military families.

It took a toll when I couldn't see my mom as much.

Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.

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