Jude Law Quotes

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.

I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.

I'm an only child, so I don't come from a big family. But it has been my observation from friends who do come from big families that usually, when you have a family fight, on the back end you come out better and stronger for it.

Jim Swan was my father, but Reg Barnes was my dad.

When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.

Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the end, it's that moment where you're crying because of that core relationship.

What interested me most about the Kennedys was the family situation. Somehow, they had created this family that lasted over time, they had a sense of connection to one another. Especially now, when people are spread all over the country and they don't see grandparents and parents, this family bonded together.

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.

A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.

Being a father and trying to love my daughters with unconditional love - those were all good decisions.

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes

I love my mother-in-law and I think I'm a really good one, too.

Someone that is not close with their family is an immediate deal breaker for me.

As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may not be the best way to accomplish his objective. Instead, if he will lovingly cling to the Savior and the iron rod of the gospel, his family will want to cling to him and to the Savior.

I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.