Josh Elliott Quotes

Because I'm not a spy in 'Spooks' and I'm not in every day I'm able to do other things, which is great fun because it breaks it all up for me and I get some time to spend with my daughter.

Mornings and afternoons are my family time and I'm lucky that I can drop the kids off at school, I don't have to be at the office or anything.

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.

I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

My life at home gives me absolute joy. Having so much time there with the family has just been incredible. My life has changed and I work less, but I was never really one to work too much.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.

I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.

The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.

With the kids around, this is a different world to me. I spend a lot of time with them till they go to their playschool. I wake up early, have breakfast with them. I come back from work and am with them again till they go to bed by 10 P.M. Touch wood, this is what I wanted always.

The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

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

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

I am at home with my kids from 6 to 8. If I have a work dinner, I'll schedule to have dinner after 8. But we're working at night. You'll get plenty of emails from me post-8 P.M. when my kids go to bed.

I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.

A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.

I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very fortunate that my job has a lot of flexibility. I spend a lot of time with the kids, just around the house.