When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.


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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE
As I sat on a sunny bank On Christmas day in the morning I spied three ships come sailing in.
WASHINGTON IRVING
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing bu...
JOHN IRVING
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea.
IRVING CAESAR
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN
Wallace Worthington would have reminded Wilbur Larch of someone he might have met at the Channing-Pe...
JOHN IRVING
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity tak...
WASHINGTON IRVING
His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
WASHINGTON IRVING
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Econo...
IRVING FISHER
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favo...
IRVING BABBITT
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice...
IRVING WALLACE
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve...
IRVING BABBITT
It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sy...
JOHN IRVING
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in m...
JOHN IRVING
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away a...
WASHINGTON IRVING
One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and som...
KYRIE IRVING
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increa...
IRVING BABBITT
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one th...
IRVING PENN
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husband...
WASHINGTON IRVING
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and...
WASHINGTON IRVING
All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix.
KYRIE IRVING
What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
IRVING PENN
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
WASHINGTON IRVING
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener wi...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The sto...
JOHN IRVING
Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
IRVING STONE
This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, ...
JOHN IRVING
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished b...
IRVING BABBITT
My eventual goal is to win a championship. And before I retire, I just want to win a championship. T...
KYRIE IRVING
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinate...
WASHINGTON IRVING
There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to beco...
IRVING KIRSCH
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome...
IRVING KIRSCH
With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. ...
JOHN IRVING
When it applies to the Olympics and making a decision, I have to claim Australia as my country.
KYRIE IRVING
I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
DAVID IRVING
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for g...
IRVING BERLIN