Mika Brzezinski Quotes

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I was making $150 a week in workshop. It was a rough year. I had trouble paying the rent. But I had evenings free to spend with my wife, Olive, and our baby daughter. In terms of family-building, it was one of the most blessed years of my life.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home.

Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.

I went home every night to New Jersey - or most nights - and to help with the six-grade math homework or to make breakfast in the morning, just to make sure that that was there. When I was single and didn't have children, I used to laugh at this notion of quality time.

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.

What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

When I'm home, I'm just mom. We're a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.

I like to stay home with my family.

The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

I'm finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true.

I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.

I'm a family guy. I want to be home with my family, want to spend as much time with my family as I can.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.

The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.

I go home, I have dinner with my wife and kids, and after my kids go to bed, I'm back online doing stuff.

I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.