Kevin Nealon Quotes

If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful.

There's no vacation from being a parent.

My children come first, and always will.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

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.

When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Men have the choice to arrange their schedules so they can pick up the kids from school twice a week. And they have the choice not to, and then to feel guilty about this choice.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

I have to be a father first and a husband first.

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

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

I can easily tap into the feeling of being a mother and the feeling of, you always want what's best for your kids. And that's where most parents come from.

My kids come first on all measures.

I personally don't resent having my children.

I own full responsibility for providing for my children.

No one tells you how hard being a parent is! We could have had a warning! It is literally the hardest thing I've ever done but I'm loving it.

It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.