As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.
My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster.
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we have to teach them simple lessons that can lead to a lifetime of good health.
My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54.
The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.
But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.
I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
If I'm going for advice for anything in my life, I go straight to my father because he has the answers.
My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
