Vanilla Ice Quotes

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

I grew up in a town without fathers.

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

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 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.

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.'

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.

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.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.

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.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

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

I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.

Every song is personal, but 'Ohio,' on my first EP, was on another level. I really opened up about the lack of relationship I had with my father. We stopped talking about four years ago, and I haven't had a father figure in my life since.

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.

I want to be the dad that my father never was.

I'm fortunate enough that I have my father in my life, but I would imagine losing your father at 15, 16, 17 is a lot different than losing your father at 36, 37, 38.

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.

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.

Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.