Robert A. Johnson Quotes

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

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

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge of my life. That's the most important thing for me, more than films.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

My dad is a good dad.

When I came into the Perry family, it was one of those deals where it was the only family I had. I didn't have a father figure growing up like that, somebody who genuinely cared about me. Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man.

For any child, boy or girl, a father is both Jedi and Sith: Obi-Wan Kenobi - gentle and calming and good - and Vader, fierce and terrifying.

I always grew up thinking how amazing my dad was, how strong he was.

I don't know how consciously anyone looks for a father figure.

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.

Every son's first superhero is his father, and it was the same for me. For me, he was Superman and Batman combined.

Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing.

I've never known my real father, and I've never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life - and I've acquired more than one. I certainly couldn't ask for better ones. I love them enormously - and they know that.

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.