Comedic actor Rick Moranis.
You may remember him from his roles in Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, or Honey, I Shrunk The Kids.
But he disappeared from movies back in the 1990s.
Why?
To stay home and raise his children after his wife died from liver cancer.
Today I Found Out provides a link to an interview with Moranis.
Excerpted from the interview:
I’m a single parent and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the travelling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn’t miss it.
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I was trying to recreate a lot of the joy I experienced as a kid… [I] kind of decided to follow the adage of “90% of the success is showing up or being there” and I found that to be true. Just being there was the best thing I could do. That’s what I experienced with my mother at home all the time and so when my kids came home there was music and there were lights on there were great smells coming out of the kitchen and it was just always a joyous place to be and that’s what I wanted, what I wanted to create.
I didn’t walk away from [my creativity], I applied all my creativity to my home life, to me kids, to my family. I was the same person, I didn’t change, I just shifted my focus.
Read more at Today I Found Out.
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