Danny Aiello Quotes

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

In my entire life I've spent maybe three weeks with my dad under the same roof.

As a kid, watching your dad leave, that's pretty powerful.

I wouldn't say it's to the point where I hate him or nothing like that because he's not with my mom or he wasn't there when I was growing up. He's my father whether I like it or not - he helped give me life. So I still love him and everything. Sometimes I wished he was with me, and other times I didn't.

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

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

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.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

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

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

I grew up in a town without fathers.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

My father was gone when I was three years old.