I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is ...
Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.
We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami.
I like doing family films.
I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.
Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.
I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.
The Brady family was what everyone wanted their family to be like.
The Beach Boys was a family hobby that we turned into a profession. We're very blessed.
You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.
Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.
I like to stay home with my family.
When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.
In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project...
That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.
I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
