Quotes About Father

I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.

In our house, my dad had a chair. It was a Barcalounger, big and comfortable. If we missed him or wanted comfort when he wasn't home, we'd just climb into the chair and let it envelop us.

In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.

My role model is my dad.

My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe four years old. That was how I started. I started modeling, and it progressed from there.

I started getting modelling assignments and that's how I became interested in acting. But my father, who last watched Dilip Kumar's ' Devdas,' wanted me to do MBA. I didn't listen to him and gave my audition for Yash Raj films' 'Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge' and got selected for it.

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

It's hard to see your dad once in a blue moon.

No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who taught us out of the scriptures. The Book of Mormon was her favorite.

I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks.

I've always had an acute sense of mortality, maybe because my father's a minister.

Moses is our true founding father.

My dad is the funniest human being I've ever met in my life - for years, I'd watch him hold court in whatever situation he was in; he was the most amazing raconteur. I often feel I've hijacked what should have been his career.

For me, the relationship with my father is the most important thing that I have.

I'm a father, and that is the absolute most important thing in my life.

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.

I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

My dad has children by four different mothers.

When I was younger, I always saw my friends with their mothers and fathers and felt a little jealous of them for having a father close by.

We always talk about single mothers; the challenges they face. But the single father faces challenges as well.