Jermaine Dupri Quotes

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

I had a dad you know.

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

I want to be present for my kids, and my biological father wasn't present for me.

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

Jeff Garlin is essentially my dad.

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.

The most challenging part of being a dad is trying to postpone the moment when they realize you don't know anything. I love any sentence that begins with Daddy...? because it's implied they're looking up to you - that you'll have the answer. The truth is, I don't have any answers.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

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.

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

In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.

George Burns was the father I never had.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.

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.