Stephen Rodrick Quotes

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

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

My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

My father was gone when I was three years old.

I grew up without a father figure.

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

Of course there's some things that I would have liked to have... none of my friends growing up had their father in the house. None of 'em. We had uncles and stuff like that, but nobody had a father in the house, none of my friends.

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

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 grew up mainly with my mother, and I would see my father from time to time. But I didn't have a constant male figure.

I didn't have a dad coming up. I didn't have someone to be scared of.

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

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

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.

I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

I never knew my father, which explains the Clint thing. He called himself Daddy... I loved it then, because it filled a great void.

My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.

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

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.