Father Quotes

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

If they had killed by father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace.

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.