Mark Consuelos quotes:

We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.

I'm doing 'I Hate My Teenage Daughter' with Katie Finneran and Jaime Pressly.

I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

Sometimes we're at hotels, and I'll answer the phone. They'll say, 'Mr. Ripa, your breakfast is coming upstairs.' And I'm like, Is my father-in-law here? But, obviously, I'm proud either way - Ripa or Consuelos.

Any time you get a chance to do something different or get away from your appearance or get away from what people are used to seeing, I think it's always good.

People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.

I like things to have rules, I like order and I like schedules.

We found that our kids enjoy those simple adventures we take as a family. I'm driving, my wife's the copilot and we give one kid a choice of what they want to go do. We eat a lot of bad food and sleep in some interesting hotels.

There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.

As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can be doing different things each season is great.

I am very traditional, and I am the disciplinarian.

My wife is so funny and talented and never lets anybody fail next to her.

It's really interesting, for an actor, that you can continue to do season after season and not play the same role.

There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind.