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

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.

I am very traditional, and I am the disciplinarian.

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

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

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.

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.