Gil Gerard Quotes

I'm a father of three teenage daughters.

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.

There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That's why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

I think having four children made me a good mentor. As a parent, you get to know young people as they mature and grow up and to also learn about some of the difficulties they face.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

I have a big responsibility as a father. That helps me to be more sensible.

My kids have really brought me into maturity on another level and I really appreciate them for that.

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.