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There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

- Anthony Edwards
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Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I ask the makeup artist to cover up my pimples, but beyond that, I try not to be too vain.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.

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There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.