Adam F. Goldberg Quotes

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

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.

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

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 had a dad you know.

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.

Big Mike Meyer was my real dad as far as I was concerned.

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

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

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

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

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

I'm the father that Bow Wow never had.

Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'

I grew up without a father figure.

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

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

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.'