Kyle MacLachlan Quotes

Being a father taught me patience. And it taught me vulnerability. You don't realize how vulnerable you are when you love something else more far more than yourself.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

Being a father is just great. I love every minute - even the rubbish, middle-of-the night stuff.

My daughter has changed me. She has made me grow up quicker because I don't just have a kid, I have a baby girl. She has made me more patient. I am actually soft when I get around her. I don't think she changed me as a fighter, but she has changed me as a person. She has helped me mature.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.

I think me having kids is helpful. It opens up a new little area of your heart.

You just become more mature as a human being, having a child. The stakes are a lot higher, things are different. It teaches you to be patient and it's changed me a lot.

It's amazing how being a dad changes your outlook on life.

Fatherhood has changed me, I've become more patient.

Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.

My dad loves babies. He's really good with them and is a big family man.

I enjoy fatherhood.

I can't imagine my life without my kids. Raising them has been the greatest joy in my life.

I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.

When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.