My father was in and out of jail throughout my childhood. He really wasn't in my life at all. Thankfully, I had two strong role models who guided me through those years.
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.
I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.
When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father, the television journalist Roger Mudd, had been to him.
Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
My father wasn't the best role model to me.
I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.
My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to prosper.
My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.
My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.
The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America.
I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.
My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.
My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.
I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.
My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.
My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.
My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.
I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.
My father would often start to say something, then say 'Forget it.'
