Fatherhood Journey Quotes

I think fatherhood would change anybody when you have your first son. It's been amazing.

There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what it meant to be a man. We tried to get close to our children when we became fathers, and yet the business of practicing masculinity kept getting in the way. We men have begun to talk about that.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

My most popular blogs end up being the ones where I talk about being a dad.

...Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties.

I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.

I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I had a family, and I had never been around kids much at all. All of a sudden, I was around three boys all the time.

Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the end, it's that moment where you're crying because of that core relationship.

I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.

If I'd have known how much fun fatherhood would be, I would have started way earlier than 45.