Quotes About Family

Football should not be your source of identity. This one is important to me because I am much more than the player. My faith, my wife, my family, and the work I do off the field is paramount to feeling whole.

I value my family more than anything. That's always paramount.

My mom was paranoid about my safety.

There's a lot of paranormal activity in my family. Whether it is more than most other families is hard to say, but we seem to have more than most.

At work, you're replaceable... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Now that I'm a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with my own children. That multigenerational experience around his work is very meaningful.

If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a... lot of cardio just from being a parent.

I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes. Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I'm not real crazy about.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

One thing I always want to clear up was the notion that I 'took time off to have a baby.' A lot people leapt to that conclusion because becoming a parent happened to coincide with film roles tapering off.

Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

I'm pretty proud of the parent that I've become.

The best thing I probably do is - I'll say I'm a pretty darn good parent. I got good kids.