#Father

"Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up."

"There will always be competition, especially in showbiz. There's always someone younger and hungrier standing behind you; there's always someone with more contacts; there's always someone whose grandfather or father is a filmmaker. I think your job is just to be there 100% - you work hard, and there are no shortcuts to success."

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you."

"My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know."

"He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much."

"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

"My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise."

"As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy."

"I’m an only child, and therefore I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me, they wouldn’t even be parents."

"Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?"

"If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman."

"My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony."

"He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke."

"I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?"