Daniel Baldwin Quotes

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

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he'd impersonate me.

Parents who neglect their children, who don't know where they are, who don't know what they're doing, who don't know who they're hanging out with, you're gonna find yourselves spending some quality time with your kids, in jail, together.

Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.

I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.

The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

It's crazy how people just don't care sometimes about the kids they have.

One of my major regrets was that period in my life where I wasn't present in my kids' life. I was in another world.

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

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 think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

My dad never explained anything growing up.

I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

My father never put me on his lap and said he loved me.

But I was never, you know, when I see some kids today who are close to their parents, close to their friends... I think it's simply wonderful. I was not a happy kid. Back in those days, I remember the sick, gray days were better. Because when it was sunny I'd feel worse.

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.

My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die?

In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.