You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.