Chris Rock Quotes

I have said a lot that it's very important to me to make time for my child and make her the priority. I made sacrifices so that I'm around and not traveling for that.

My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.

We don't have nannies and all that, we look after our own kids. It's just what you do. If you want a big family that's just what you do, isn't it?

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.

You want to spend time with your children even though you are tired so you do all those things.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

My day starts with my son and finishes with my son, and in between, I get to do everything else.

You don't have to sacrifice your family to be a great coach.

I take the six weeks of the school summer holidays off because I'm pretty sure I'm not going to look back on my life one day and say, 'Damn, I wish I hadn't spent so much time with my children.'

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.

I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

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

When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.

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

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

My day rotates around my family. I am very lucky.

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.