Gerard Butler Quotes

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

My father was gone when I was three years old.

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?

My father, he left the family when I was 13, so mum looked after us.

My father had a tremendous influence on me, and I think many children who come from broken homes, esp. when they're very early. My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. It was something in order to empower myself.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.

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 grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.

My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.

'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

My father, my Mormon father, took off when I was a young man and, or actually very young, I was like six years old, so a young boy.

My parents got divorced when I was nine months old, and my father would only pop in and see me once a year, if that. I don't have much contact with him.

My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.

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.

A lot of people ask why I don't talk about my dad, and I want to, I just don't have that many stories. When he moved out, he moved to a different state, so it was just my mom and I.

I never met my father. He left before I was born.

I also sing about my mom leaving me a lot - a lot of kids have their moms or dads leave them, so they relate to that. I wear my heart on my sleeve, so I think that's what the kids love.

Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

My father? My father left when I was quite young. Well actually, he was asked to leave. He had trouble metabolizing alcohol.