Todd McFarlane Quotes

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Perhaps it's because I am reading romance differently than I did when I was younger, but I like my characters older. Grounded in reality. And nothing is more real than kids.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

My children have very little interest in my work. The most important question they have for me is, 'What's for tea?'

Like traditional upper class families, there are nannies and servants, and the children, you know, come in to say good-night before they go to bed. There's very little private time with the children in the early years. Actually, there's much more private time with the children in the 20s.

By being with my kids. I'm like a lion who hunts and comes home to be looked after and sleep. I think girls tend to be drawn towards their dad. I'd love to have a son, but I have three kids who are great - three geezer birds and that's all I need to worry about.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

I was on the board at my children's school in Phoenix: I was Mr. Daddy Daycare.

My wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we'd think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth - he's the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're much more relaxed these days.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

I remember one day my son, our Robert, was looking at me on the settee and looking at me on the television, and then all of a sudden he said: 'Why don't you bring that pretty mummy home with you?' And I thought: 'Oh dear, I'm going to have to dress up at home now as well!'

I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.

Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!

I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.

My wife and I are constantly bombarded with questions from our children, from the mundane and repetitive to the surprisingly insightful. It's amazing how many times three children can say 'Daddy' in just one hour, much less one day.

I think when you're on a visiting relationship rather than a living relationship, it's kind of hard to have impact as a parent.

Both of my kids have my sense of humor - they're definitely entertaining.

Dad was never a Mr. Mum-type of person who'd stay at home. It was a big thing when he was home - he was a circus.