Quotes About Family

I have a beautiful wife, I have two great kids, my career's still going, I've got my health. What can I ask for?

I've already got a beautiful wife, a great son, and a house. What else do you need?

I got a beautiful wife and beautiful, healthy children, and that's really all you can ask for.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.

My friends who have kids look like they haven't been to bed for a year.

She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write.

My kids would not get in to bed every night without me telling them that I loved them.

Our television set was in the bedroom. I can picture my mother fast asleep, exhausted from driving my brothers around. I can picture the Maple Leafs playing the Canadiens. One or the other would always be on the CBC on Saturday night.

From my estate, where my mum still lives now, from my bedroom you could see Wembley. I go back a lot, my brothers are still there and she does a lot of cooking for me. To try to get a coach doesn't make sense, Willesden to Wembley. You can't do that really.

We didn't have an awful lot of space. There were six of us born within the space of seven or eight years - I was third. I remember sharing a room with one or other of my brothers - at one point we had three single beds in one room.

I'm the alpha parent most of the time, but bedtime is a completely different animal.

I just used to make up stories for the kids at bedtime and my wife goes, 'you should start putting that stuff down.' It's such a joy to do.

It's not like I'm back for bath-time and bedtime for the children. You're back when they are asleep and you go out before they wake up. Really, that time when they are young goes all too quickly.

I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.

Beef is not allowed in my house.

My elder son and his wife keep bees, and my younger son has bees, too.

I remember my father used to beg for a loan to buy a house. He had to beg the banks for a loan.

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

When you're coming up and trying to be successful the foundation begins at home. You gotta take over the city first.

I look like my mother but behave like my father.

I'd say I'm quite well behaved! It's just the way I've been brought up, really.

As kids, my mom would always let us help bake, and if we behaved, we got to lick the beaters clean.

Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.