Macaulay Culkin Quotes

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

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

The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

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

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

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

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

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.

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.

I always appreciated that connection between a parent and a kid because I yearned for it so much. Growing up, I wanted a father, and because I've had this idea of what a father should be, it's exciting to finally have the opportunity to try and be that guy, to see if I can actually do it.

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

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

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

I'm the father that Bow Wow never had.

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.

It is very difficult when you grow up without a father because you don't have a man who can give you direction and discipline.

Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.

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

People who knew Dad used to say at times I was brought up as the son Dad never had.

I probably took on the father role, as children will. I know I did.

Fathers are the first image of who God is!

Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.