Steve Schirripa Quotes

Being a parent is such a difficult business; you don't always get things right. And also, you don't want to be a perfect parent... You need people to be human, and part of it is imperfection.

I was not an ideal parent, and there were things that I did right and things I did wrong.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

I am really bad at being a mom. I think it's hard for me to be a mom. I do my best. I am not the poster child for being a mother, I will say that. I wish I was.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

It is always fragile, being a parent.