Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.
When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
Every parent craves for a child, and once their wishes come true, they feel that it's not possible for them to love anyone more that the first born. But the fact is, after you have the second issue, the feeling is, how can I not love the kid?
I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.
Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.
Parenthood and having kids puts you in touch with a whole other sort of sensitivity which is nothing but good. You feel more than you ever felt. You feel that vulnerability, but at the same time you wouldn't trade it for anything.
The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.
Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.
Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.
Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
My happiness is measured against my kids' happiness - when they're in a good place, I feel really good.
I do think it was fantastic to have a kid young. My friends now are all panicking if they haven't found somebody to have kids with. It was never like that for me because I already had the kid!
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Personally, I've always known that I wanted to go back to work because I'm confident, and I'm certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I'm doing the things that I'm excited about and that I'm passionate about.
Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.
People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.
Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.
At a certain point in one's career, it's really wonderful when your child turns around and goes, 'Oh my God, Mommy, you have to be in that film. My friends are going to die.'
Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness
I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.
My children are the only thing in my life that makes me happy.
There's nothing as satisfying, thrilling and gratifying as parenthood.
It's the best feeling in the world. I'm pretty sure if you don't have kids, you hear everybody say that. It's the most amazing feeling in the world seeing somebody that's just like you.
I want to enjoy the success of my children.
