Ray Romano Around Fatherhood and Career

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Ray Romano, who known as Raymond on his sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond has the opportunity to be in Ice Age 3 : Dawn of the Dinosaurs, as a voice of woolly mammoth.

As he recently appeared on the Today show, he said that he was very nervous after the baby, his daughter, Alexandra, 19 years old, was born.

“I remember I went to pick up my wife and daughter from the hospital, and I parked in a tow-away zone and the car wasn’t there and we had to go home in a cab from the hospital with a newborn in a New York city cab. So on my daughter’s first trip, she heard a lot of Indian music.”

After twenty two years of marriage, the 51 years old actors gave the advice, about his experience when forced to battle his nerves,

“My advice is just let the woman tell you where to go and what to do,” he suggests. Keeping the conversation light, the comedian also told the morning show’s producers that getting “as much sleep and as much sex” before baby arrives is key! “Because that’s over [after baby],” he jokes.

And like any children love to copy everything their parents did. Father of four children, Alexandra, 19, twins Matthew and Gregory, 16, and Joseph Raymond, 11, said that his children are very interesting in competeting a future in business.

“My boys, interesting enough, they want to get into it and they’re the shy ones,” he reveals. Noting that his “outgoing” daughter “wants nothing to do with showbiz,” the proud papa admits she — usually — spends her time dodging the celebrity baby bullet.

“I once asked my daughter … ‘Does anybody in your class ever say they watch the show?’ And she was like, ‘Yeah, and then I never talk to them again.’ I’m like, ‘Why?’ She wants nothing to do with it unless there’s Justin Timberlake concert tickets she needs and then it’s like, ‘Daddy, make a phone call.’”

His wife sort of Manager to Ray, Anna, in a time found herself presenting her husband in several job’s offer. “She was signing me up for like, Dancing With the Stars. How about Celebrity Rehab? I’m not on anything!” explains Ray.

Success in the sitcom, the fans still love Raymond, it is kind of ironic that what they love is what they see everyday in their character. “That’s a sad commentary that everybody sees somebody in there who they can relate to. I guess there are a lot of dysfunctional families out there.”

And a funny actor compares his marriage life with Manny, characther in the Ice Age, he said

“Manny is still struggling with his relationship. That was no problem for me because I just rely on my own lack of understanding about talking to women. Marriage made me harder. Parenthood made me softer. I was kind of like Manny when my first kid was born. I didn’t know how I was going to react and then once I had this new daughter, I was amazed at how I became like the overprotective father.”

His success to him is most like blessing and curse at the same time.
“It’s almost like a blessing and a curse at the same time. I don’t ever need to work again, if I don’t want to. But, there’s something to that Neil Sedaka song ‘I Miss the Hunger Years.’ That’s right. I’m quoting Neil Sedaka. In the beginning, my wife was like, ‘Oh, good. You’ll be home.’ Now she’s going, ‘You’ve got to get a job.’ The other day I was home and I cried at a Deal Or No Deal. I’m like, ‘Holy crap, I’ve got to get work fast.'”

Ray Romano sum up the Ice Age 3 movie’s message of family and frienship,
“It’s kind of a theme for the whole franchise really — how you can always count on your family. It’s kind of what I’m learning also as I go through this, my career, and it’s true for everybody. It’s not that people or the world isn’t a nice place. It is. But when you really need someone to rely on who has your back, it’s your family.”

His new series starting in December 8th on TNT called Men of Certain Age, about three friends who went to school together, and they’re at a point in their lives where everyone’s wondering what’s next.

“I play a divorced father with two kids who has a dream of being a pro golfer. I’m just trying to draw on what I know, and all I know is pain and suffering.”

Welcome back, Ray. Pain and suffering are always love to see.