Father Quotes

You know, I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that and the other. And there's enough information to support that, you know, I'm a single father, that, you know, has been a pretty standup guy in his community and pretty private about that stuff. But it's on both sides.
Kid Rock

Crazy, Rock, Single

My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.
Shaquille O'Neal

School, Sleep, Basketball

I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.
Caroline Kennedy

Women, Great, Justice

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.
Steven Tyler

Mother, Mind, Children

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.
Christian Bale

Time, Attitude, Dad

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.
Christian Bale

Life, Change, Family

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Rock, Problem, Guy

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
Natalie Portman

Life, Real, Done

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
Laura Linney

Wanted, Since, Stage

I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
Laura Linney

Love, Career, Him

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
Laura Linney

Parents, Spend, Weekends

When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Words, Give, Said

I'm always going to love my father.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
Claude Chabrol

Wanted, Himself, Doctor

Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.
Jason Reitman

Career, Made, Son

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'
Jason Reitman

Love, Work, Movies

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Salesman, Traveling

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.
Jesse Jackson

Life, Mother, She

I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'
Sara Blakely

Home, Dad, Saying

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.
Robert Mapplethorpe

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Done, Wanted, Somebody

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.
Brad Pitt

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
Brad Pitt

Life, Dad, Give

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.
Novak Djokovic

Learning, Together, Made

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
Daniel Goleman

Life, Brain, Between

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
Vin Diesel

Teacher, Character, Long

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Vin Diesel

Beautiful, Everything, Done

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.
Bruce Springsteen

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
Bruce Springsteen

Work, Best, Mother

I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
Betty White

Nice, Mother, Fun

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