Bruce Willis Quotes

Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.

That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.

I've done all kinds of cool things as an actor - I've jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody’s daddy.

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won't take away your manhood; it will give it to you.

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.

My days of being an absentee dad are well and truly over.

Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.

I learned from my dad's mistakes. I think that's why I'm so into my son. I bring him lunch every day: McDonald's, Taco Bell, whatever junk food a kid likes, I will bring it for him. I've canceled gigs so I could be at moments for him. That wasn't a big thing for my dad.

At the end of the day, I'm here for my son and our future, to be the dad I always wanted to be and in the position I always wanted to be in.

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.

Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.

I want to be the best parent I can be. I want to be the best husband I can be

I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.

I don't want my kids to ever think that I am choosing my job over them.

One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.

My priority as a father should always remain first. My kids look to me as their example. Every decision I make and everything that I do always has to come back to the question, "Does this make me a better father?" "Will my kids benefit from this?" It's no longer just about me…but about my kids. My perspective in life has changed.

I think my children have presented one of the biggest lessons so far in my life. It was only when my kids were born that I realized just how much I'd been living my life worried about what everybody thought of me and, even more strangely, worried about what I imagined other people might be thinking about me.

Every morning when I wake and every night when I go to sleep, I'm thinking about what I can do to become a better father and a better person.