Wendy E. Long Quotes

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

New York City is an amazing place to raise children.

Los Angeles is my home - I have my wife and two daughters growing up there.

I've sort of remarried a few years ago and have had a couple more children in the last couple of years. And so home life is taking up a lot of my time.

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.

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.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

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.

I have two beautiful children, a wife who loves me very much and who I love - and my career is going well, too.

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

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

We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.

My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.

I'm proud to be Secretary of Labor. But I'm even prouder of two more important titles: dad and husband. I've been able to be all three. I want all working people, no matter what their jobs are, to be able to meet their obligations both at work and at home.

The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Having a family has made a huge difference in the roles I take, so doing a show in L.A. is a huge factor.

From a very young age, I had this idea that if you are very successful in your career, and you're giving all of your attention to that, then your family life... possibly will not flourish as it might.

I'm fortunate enough that my personal life falls into whack with my professional life. My kids love visiting the sets; they love the monsters.

Other prime ministers leave office and stay in London. I have come back with my whole family to Fife. This is where they are being brought up. It is better for them and better for me. It's great to see more of the kids.

My average day is with my wife and kids in Dublin, doing school runs, grocery store, feeding and walking the dogs.

I've found that it is possible to have balance between your job and your family, that there are coaches out there who are doing it.

I have my life on the field, but when I finish that, I want a quiet life with my family.