There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time.

I tell my kids, 'I'm your father, not your friend - but I'm also the best friend you're ever going to have because no one is going to care for you the way I care about you.'

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I'm not going to humiliate myself. I'd rather drive a cab.

Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

I've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.

Alan Grant: "There are... far too many words written. Millions and millions of them pouring from the presses every minute. It's a horrible thought." The Midget (his nurse): "You sound constipated.

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

Jose Enrique's strength is that he's very strong

The industry needs transforming. It’s for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on the journey.

Bella, would you please stop trying to take your clothes off?