Paul Bettany Quotes

I'm the father of four daughters.

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.

Father of four. I like the sound of that.

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'

I have four daughters, with the two youngest being four years old and a year and a half. When one of my older daughters was in sixth grade, a classmate brought in their talking Winnie the Pooh doll for show and tell, so the next week my daughter one upped her classmates and brought me to school in for show and tell.

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

I have a very strong paternal streak. I'm a born father...I get such enjoyment out of being with children. Now they are enjoyable little things. They really are. I like their kind of humor. You can stuff all your punk bands, give me three children instead.

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.

I did not become a father because I am fond of children.

I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids! :)

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

I cannot live without children.

Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).

On her daughters: I have a 5 year old and I have a 1 year old.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children.

I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

Children enhance you.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.