Simon Bird Quotes

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I did say that I wanted to be a young mom, just because my mom was a young mom. It is better because I can be closer to my kids and stuff.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.

I've never been married, and I have no regrets about not starting my own family. I come from a large one, so there are so many people around all the time. I've been very happy, but I've never gotten married. That's about the size of it. I would have been a good father because I've been a father to my brothers' and sisters' children.

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

I guess I'm weirder than I thought, particularly as I think about me as a dad.

People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

I dispute the idea that we turn into our parents. These children who have come into my life are unique beings. I don't think I am teaching my children anything, frankly. I think they are teaching me.

Everybody wanna be a super dad and the best dad ever, but sometimes, I'm just realizing that I'm not perfect.

I had my own little quirks as a child.

I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.

Once you become a mother, your relationships in your own life change. Perhaps with your own mother, and perhaps with your sister. Perhaps with your baby-daddy.

When you have your own kid, it suddenly makes you more aware of how your parents treated you and educated you. Your relationships with your partner, your uncles, your mother all change; you're more conscious of where you came from, of where your roots are. I find that very interesting.

As you get older, your idiosyncrasies become sort of exaggerated. So you are who you have always been, only more so.

Anybody can be a dad. I just want to be a good parent. I want to be a dad that my kids can talk to. I want to have a relationship with them.

Here I am getting $50,000 for personal appearances. Everyone wants a piece of me. But my kids think no one could possibly think Dad is cool.

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

Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.

I wanted to be the dad that was able to feed my daughter, hold my daughter, really be there for my daughter.

I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time.... I was born to be a dad.

We need our Dads right now, we need strong fathers. I really want fathers to get close to their children.