Kate Fleetwood Quotes

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.

With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.

I wanted to stay on TV because I've got kids who are school-aged, so I get to see them most days as opposed to going away for movies months and months at a time.

I really like playing football, but I have four kids and there are so many fun things to do.

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

For me, having it all doesn't mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren't kids running around as I'm trying to cook my husband something special.

I have three young children, and I kind of stopped going to movies in 2006. I go to see some, but I'm a little bit out of touch, and I didn't know who Marion Cotillard was.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

I travel all the time, and I have two small children.

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

With four kids, it's hard to watch anything other than 'Sesame Street.'

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.

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

I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.

Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.

I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.