Labrinth Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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 remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.

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

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

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

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.

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

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.

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

I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.

In my entire life I've spent maybe three weeks with my dad under the same roof.

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

In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'

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.

Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

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

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.

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