Tim Daly Quotes

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.

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.

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

I want to be the dad that my father never was.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

It is very difficult when you grow up without a father because you don't have a man who can give you direction and discipline.

Look, I've got a great dad.

I've never known my real father, and I've never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life - and I've acquired more than one. I certainly couldn't ask for better ones. I love them enormously - and they know that.

In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

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