Brian Azzarello Quotes

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

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

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

I grew up without a father figure.

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

I didn't have a dad around to pick me up when I fell, throw the ball to me outside. I always wonder how it would be if I did have a dad there.

I want to be the dad that my father never was.

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

A lot of people don't even know that about me, I grew up without a father.

You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a person. You just don't know. I might not even be playing cricket.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.