Steve Schirripa Quotes

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.

All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.

I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.

I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.

My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

I never speak for my husband, and I never speak for my children. It's a rule. Believe me, it is.

I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.

I have a life. My kids don't run my house.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

My wife has joked that if anything ever happened to me, she'd gladly live out her life without anyone else around. I think it bugs her I'm home all the time; such is the life cycle of the cartoonist, however.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.