Quotes About Family

I think of the 'Hobbit' films as being films for the family.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

I had a very hard-working father and a very hard-working mother. My dad was someone that would get up at 5 in the morning and work 'til 4 in the afternoon and then had a hobby he made money with. After he'd get home, he'd have a meal and have a drink and then flow right into that, trying to provide.

No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

It's my job. It's not a hobby, it's how I put food on the table for my family. I have to be on a bike.

Success for me has been turning a hobby into a job and when my kids left school, I did the same for them.

I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.

I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.

We're a huge hockey family. I took to it really quickly, and I was in love with it.

Canadians see the Americans as cousins. We love the same sports: Canadians are crazy about baseball and basketball, and our beloved game of hockey is played all over the U.S.

Every Christmas we went to my parents' cottage. My big brother would bring his buddies around, and we would play hockey games in the driveway.

My father played hockey until he was 18.

I've always got a home in England. My family and friends are there. It's a place I hold very close to me.

If you have three children under the age of four, as I did, you have to make choices, because you cannot hold hands with all of them.

If you're driving home and your kids are playing up in the back seat, I'm pretty sure that's taxing. You're trying to hold your composure, you're trying not to shout at them.

My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.

When I talk to younger actors, and young people in general, who are holding off having children because they think they cannot fit them into their busy lives, I now know, and am able to say to them, 'You've just got to get on with it; there is never going to be a right time.'

My thing is I'm always concerned about my kids and their bodies holding up in the industry. We don't have time off. They run 365 days a year and gone all the time and performing every night. I'm kind of leaning for them to go to Hollywood.

One reason women are left 'holding the baby' is anti-male discrimination in rights of maternity/paternity leave.

I grew up in a small holding in Staffordshire near Tamworth, and we had a few ponies and chickens, ducks and dogs and my mum used to do horse-riding lessons, but we moved to Birmingham when I was 13.

Unfortunately, everyone thought that Teri Hatcher was my wife. Matter of fact, I would be with my wife, holding my wife's hand at a football game, and someone would come up to me and say, 'Hey, I love those commercials you do with your wife.' My kids almost had shirts made up that said, 'Teri Hatcher is not my mom.'

If it hadn't been for my family, I would have been holding up banks and everything.

I'm passionate about holding on to my heritage and sharing it with family and friends, and cooking is a great way to do this.

Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.