Kathryn Harrison Quotes

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

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.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

My dad had been very absent, even when he was there. Then he left the family and moved away. Our relationship, it feels to me, ended when I was 13.

I grew up without a father figure.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home.

Unfortunately, I never knew my father and when I did, it was very briefly.

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.

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

I know there are a lot of kids who aren't lucky enough to have a father figure in their lives. That's a really tough obstacle to overcome.

I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn't have their father's support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I?

I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.

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

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

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

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.'