Ray Romano Quotes

I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been lots of battling and lots of love and it's never an easy road for us. But in the deepest recesses, I do have my mother's values.

Young men are obsessed with their dads, and they remain obsessed if the dad is not around. Remember that there was a lot of discussion about how George W. Bush might have invaded Iraq to atone for the failures of his dad.

I have never met a feminist who didn't have a father.

I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

Many of my deepest insecurities stem from my issues with my dad.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that something's wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn't bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

All young men can relate to that moment where they have to - or, rather, attempt to - stand up to their dads with their own ideas of what they want for their own lives.

Jughead is one of those characters that takes the opinions of his father really seriously and probably seeks a bit of validation from him.

I have never understood why people identify with criminals: even if your father and grandfather were criminal, you have to find a way to be free.

I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side.

In one way or another, everybody has this experience in their lives... the moment when you have to define your relationship to family and how your family's made you who you are, whether you've spent your life running from your family or deeply connected to your family.

While I loved my family, I would always have this association with my father. I would always be coming up against that conservatism. It was just liberating to be in London.

I don't get asked this much - 'Would you ever wanna see your father again?' And the answer there is that I would like to see him again.

My father ruined me for men. Not many can live up to him.

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.