Father quotes

“- Michael Corleone: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.
- Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed.
- Michael Corleone: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?”

Al Pacino - Michael Corleone
Diane Keaton - Kay Adams

“- Gil Renard: He made this business.
- Garrity: Your father made beautiful knives. San Francisco made this business.”

Robert De Niro - Gil Renard
Dan Butler - Garrity

“- John Garrett: You've got a real attitude problem.
- Danny Garrett: Well, I guess that's genetic, dad!”
Terence Knox - John Garrett
Paul Scherrer - Danny Garrett

“He would get these far-off looks in his eyes and he would say 'Life doesn't always turn out the way you plan'. I just wish I'd realized at the time, he was talking about my life.”

Sandra Bullock - Lucy

“- Jeannie Conway: Don't you think someone should say something?
- Samantha Pringle: For what, a nosebleed? I've had them since I was a kid. Ice will take care of it. I just forgot to fill the tray.
- Jeannie Conway: Sam, I don't like this.
- Samantha Pringle: I hate them.
- Jeannie Conway: You know what I mean. It's criminal. He could go to...” (continue)(continue reading)

Anne Twomey - Jeannie Conway
Kristy Swanson - Samantha Pringle

“You know, one day when I was a kid my father ran off with a goat.”
Woody Harrelson - Lou the Lamb

“- Ellen Griswold: Audrey, don't cry. Your father didn't mean what he said.
- Audrey Griswold: Yes, he did!
- Ellen Griswold: No, he didn't. He's not going to cut off Jack's balls. Aren't you Clark?... Clark?!
- Clark Griswold: Okay, I won't.”
Beverly D'Angelo - Ellen Griswold
Dana Hill - Audrey Griswold
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“- Max: Do you realize going off to college means no more well meaning, but totally smothering, overprotective, doting, a-hyuck-ing dads?
- P.J.: Yeah, well... yours, at least. My dad's been counting down the days until he can turn my room into a bowling alley.”
Jason Marsden - Max Goof
Rob Paulsen - P.J. Pete

“Some people will pay a lot of money for that information; but then your daughter would lose a father, instead of gaining a husband.”

Al Pacino - Michael Corleone

“When me and my mom went into court to buy our divorce our lawyer sucked as usual, so I went up there and told the judge myself about all the beatings, about how he made us sleep in the street. And that's when my father became my ex-father, and now I got you, and you're a drunk and a bad lawyer too! So now I'm gettin' rid of you, you're fired, okay?”

Brad Renfro - Mark Sway

“From that day, Freak never asked me nothing about my father, and I never asked him nothing about his, 'cause that's not who we were.”
Elden Henson - Maxwell Kane

“- Sam: Chess ain't fun, boy, how many times do I gotta tell you that? Don't you listen to a word I say?
- Fresh: Maybe if I seen you more...
- Sam: Well you don't, so you be well served to retain some of the knowledge I'm imparting to you, rather than giving me all this hard ass street attitude bullshit.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Sam
Sean Nelson - Fresh

“- Rolfe Whitehouse: I was always careful around Pop. I was a careful child. And I'm a careful adult. But at least I was never afflicted with that man's anger.
- Wade Whitehouse: That's what you think.”
Willem Dafoe - Rolfe Whitehouse
Nick Nolte - Wade Whitehouse

“What I remember most about my childhood is holding your hand. My wee hand in your big hand, and the smell of tobacco. I remember, I could smell the tobacco in the palm of your hand. When I want to feel happy, I try to remember the smell of tobacco.”

Daniel Day-Lewis - Gerry Conlon

“When I graduated first grade, all my dad did was tell me to get a job.”
Norm MacDonald - Frank

“- Lisa Provolone: You kept me a prisoner up here - like Rapunzel.
- Angelo 'Snaps' Provolone: Well, you certainly ain't Snow White!”
Marisa Tomei - Lisa Provolone
Sylvester Stallone - Angelo 'Snaps' Provolone

“I bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.”
Groucho Marx - J. Cheever Loophole

“- Alex Finch: Have you had a happy life?
- Miranda Jeffries: Yeah, I guess so.
- Alex Finch: Is there anything you've wanted that you haven't had?
- Miranda Jeffries: My father.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Alex Finch
Mary Stuart Masterson - Miranda Jeffries

“- Dr. Henry Jekyll: When we had our talk, you refused to say you hated your father.
- Mary Reilly: I don't.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: Why not?
- Mary Reilly: He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that, but it's part of me now, and how can I regret what I am? Though it often makes me sad.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: Oh, well, sadness, yes, that...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Malkovich - Dr. Henry Jekyll
Julia Roberts - Mary Reilly

“- Kristy Thomas: I'm going to tell Mom you're here.
- Patrick Thomas: Kristy, we had a deal.
- Kristy Thomas: Yeah. Well, Dad, I'm breaking it just like you broke all your promises.”

Schuyler Fisk - Kristy Thomas
Peter Horton - Patrick Thomas

“Now is your chance, dad, don't you see? I don't care about what happened before, so you can stop trying to prove yourself to me. It doesn't matter if you win or lose, dad. I don't care about that. All I care about is being with you, dad... and I love you!”

David Mendenhall - Michael Cutler

“- Alan Parrish, 1969: Whatever I said, Dad, I'm sorry.
- Samuel Alan Parrish: Oh, Alan, I was angry, ok? And I'm sorry, too. Look, you don't have to go to Cliffside if you don't want to. Let's talk it over tomorrow. Man to man.
- Alan Parrish, 1969: How about father to son?”
Adam Hann-Byrd - Young Alan
Jonathan Hyde - Sam Parrish

“I don't want you to be upset, because I'm going to go out there and find you a daddy, and this time I'm going to be smart about it. I'm not going to go for some handsome guy just because I'm in love with him. You're the only thing that matters to me, and I'm going to go out there and I'm going to get you the best daddy there is.”

Kirstie Alley - Mollie

- Holly: Oh, God. To think it's possible I killed my baby's daddy.
- Jane: "To think it's possible"? You hit him in the head with a baseball bat. He's dead.
- Holly: No, I mean, it's possible that Nick is the daddy.
Drew Barrymore - Holly
Whoopi Goldberg - Jane

“- Arlene Lorenzo: My life is so tragic!
- Betsy Jobs: Or it could be worse! What if... years from now you get married and find out that your fiancee's dad is your dad too, and you two are brother and sister?
- Arlene Lorenzo: Oh my God!
- Betsy Jobs: Mh. It's called incest, Arlene. And it's against the law.”
Michelle Williams - Arlene Lorenzo
Kirsten Dunst - Betsy Jobs