Rod Lurie Quotes

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

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.

You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.

Every man plays many roles. So far, I have played father the best.

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

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won't take away your manhood; it will give it to you.

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

I didn't always want to be a dad.

When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I'd be better with girls. I'm quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Real men change diapers!

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.