Father quotes

“Your father always has to be the big hero. I swear if he dies I won't shed a tear.”

Natalie Canerday - Elsie Hickam

“You know, my old man wasn't around when I was born. Why should I be?”
Esai Morales - Bob Morales

“Do we mean anything to you? No, we're just kids, right? Kids can't be trusted. And if your own father can't trust you, then who the hell can?”

Tim Quill - Brian McDermott

“Hi, my name is Trent. My daddy bent me over this chair and beat me when I was little, so you need to fix it.”

Aaron Yoo - Chewie

“- Speed: It didn't amount to anything. It was completely meaningless.
- Pops: How could it be meaningless? I saw my son become a man. I watched a man with courage and integrity drive the pants off of every other driver on that road. This is not meaningless. This is the reason for a father's life.”

Emile Hirsch - Speed
John Goodman - Pops

“I'm going to be a mother, and I don't know if your ready to be a father.”
Katherine Heigl - Jen

“She's 17. I'm 42 and she's 17. I'm older than her father, can you believe that? I'm dating a girl, wherein, I can beat up her father.”
Woody Allen - Isaac

“- Gilbert: Dad's dead, Ellen.
- Momma: Gilbert!
- Amy: Gilbert.
- Momma: I can't believe you said that.
- Amy: Shut up.
- Arnie: Dad's dead.
- Amy: Arnie.
- Arnie: Dad's dead.
- Amy: Arnie, ssh. Arnie.
- Arnie: Dad's dead.
- Amy: It's okay.
- Arnie: Dad's dead.
- Amy: Stop it now!
- Arnie: Dad's dead.
- Momma: Oh, God.
- Arnie: Dad's dead!
- Amy...” (continue)(continue reading)
Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape
Darlene Cates - Bonnie Grape
Laura Harrington - Amy Grape
Leonardo DiCaprio - Arnie Grape

“He could've taken anyone, Charles Manson, super old people that already been around a hundred years. My daddy was only 34-years-old. I needed him more than you God, I needed him more.”

Elijah Wood - Stu Simmons

“There's an old saying: Raise no more devils than you can lay down. My father raised one too many.”
Wes Bentley - Blackheart

“- Daniel: You have a father or just a mother?
- Lauren: No, I have a father. As a matter of fact, I'm on my third.
- Daniel: Does your mother divorce them or just kill them?
- Lauren: No, still alive.”
Thelonious Bernard - Daniel
Diane Lane - Lauren

“- Cousin Vicki: I'm going steady, and I French kiss.
- Audrey Griswold: So? Everybody does that.
- Cousin Vicki: Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it.”
Jane Krakowski - Cousin Vicki
Dana Barron - Audrey Griswold

“The bizarre thing is that I did it for my old man. I tortured this poor kid because I wanted him to think that I was cool. He's always going off about how when he was in school and all the wild things he used to do. And I got the feeling that he was disappointed that I never cut loose on anyone, right?”
Emilio Estevez - Andrew Clark

“When I was 9 years old, I had kind of a rough time. A lot of people thought I was pretty mixed up. But there was one person who got me through it. He did everything right. And thanks to him today, well I'm the happiest, most confident and most well-adjusted person in this world. Dad, I love you. You're the greatest!”
Paul Keeley - Kevin Age 21

“I won't disappoint you. My dad always says, if you're not here to win, get the hell out of Kuwait!”
Anna Camp - Aubrey

“I'm a full-time dad. I'm a working parent. I'm a mother and a father. I'm a guy who reads parenting books and cookbooks before I go to sleep.”
Jude Law - Graham

“My father was a lot like you, just a man with a family. Never amounted to much, didn't care. But as long as he was alive, we always had plenty to eat and clothes to keep us warm.”

Marjorie Reynolds - Linda Mason

If you ask him why he hates jazz, he says things like "Jazz is the sound of the Devil, sniggering at our folly". So you end up not knowing anything... except now I know for sure the Devil doesn't lurk in our attic.

Robert Norman - Fraser

“- Lillian Meechum: Your father is very nervous about this game. Look at me, young lady! Look at me! You've got to interpret the signals he gives off!
- Mary Anne Meechum: No problem! He always gives off the signals of a psychopathic killer, so it really doesn't matter how you interpret them!”
Blythe Danner - Lillian Meechum
Lisa Jane Persky - Mary Anne Meechum

“- Gordy: My mom says the guy who's taking us has hiked all over the world.
- Barnhill: I'm sure he won't be half as good as the guy me and my dad had on our trip to the Serengeti.
- Ralph: Barnhill, if you're dad is so friggin' cool, then why isn't he our scout leader?
- Barnhill: Oh yeah. Spies have a lot of time for the scouts.”
Blake Bashoff - Gordy
Max Goldblatt - Barnhill
Corey Carrier - Ralph

“- Edna Maverick: It really wasn't that easy for him growing up. Like I said before, he never really knew his father.
- Cody Maverick: I'm not really the person to ask about it, truthfully, because I was too young to remember. I'm not the only kid on the island whose dad was eaten.”
Dana Belben - Edna Maverick
Shia LaBeouf - Cody Maverick

“Hi, we've never met before, you were married to my mom, Sara. Sara Kelly. My name is Peyton. I'm your daughter.”

Madison Pettis - Peyton Kelly

“- Bernie Focker: Roz, I'm not going through manopause. I'm just trying to find my 'true north'.
- Roz Focker: True north? What are you... a compass or something?
- Bernie Focker: No, but let's face it, I'm a stay-at-home dad whose kid hasn't lived at home in 25 years.”
Dustin Hoffman - Bernie Focker
Barbra Streisand - Roz Focker

“- Jack: No time for regrets, Elvis. We were the best fathers we could be under the circumstances.
- Elvis Presley: Yeah, I guess, no time for regrets. We got business to take care of.”
Ossie Davis - Jack
Bruce Campbell - Elvis Presley

I finally realized, he wasn't just cheating on my mother, he was cheating us. So I told him, I said, "you're bad to us. We don't love you. I'll take care of my mother and my sister. We don't need you any more". And he made like he was gonna hit me, but I didn't budge.

Bruno Kirby - Ed Furillo