Art Alexakis Quotes

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

That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.

Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing.

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

People who knew Dad used to say at times I was brought up as the son Dad never had.

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

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.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.

I'm the father that Bow Wow never had.

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.

It's important for girls to have a strong father figure in their lives.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.

I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life. I never really understood heterosexual male relationships.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.

For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.

Most little boys like to dress like their daddies.

Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.

If I'm working in the city, then as soon as I'm home, I try to lock in on my son for a few hours. Every day. I see how important it is that he's starting to come into my world now. It's just an effort to give him that male mode of being.

I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults.