Naomie Harris Quotes

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

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.

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.

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

My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

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

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

Of course there's some things that I would have liked to have... none of my friends growing up had their father in the house. None of 'em. We had uncles and stuff like that, but nobody had a father in the house, none of my friends.

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

I grew up mainly with my mother, and I would see my father from time to time. But I didn't have a constant male figure.

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.

I didn't have my dad there and I had another mate who didn't have his father, and you kind of form your own little family and that's what gangs are, that's why you have so many gangs now because there are so many kids without fathers that they seek their own male bonding.

Growing up, I was raised by a single mother.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

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.

I love the role that men play in our lives.

The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.