Father quotes

“- T'Chaka: What is wrong, my son?
- T'Challa: I am not ready, Baba.
- T'Chaka: Have you not prepared to be king your whole life? Have you not trained and studied, been by my side?
- T'Challa: That is not what I am talking about. I am not ready to be without you.
- T'Chaka: A man who has not prepared his children for his own death has failed as a...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Kani - T'Chaka
Chadwick Boseman - T'Challa

“Once you step on that bus you ain't got your mama no more. You got your brothers on the team and you got your daddy. You know who your daddy is, doncha? Gary, if you want to play on this football team, you answer me when I ask you who is your daddy? Who's your daddy, Gary? Who's your daddy?”
Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone

“- Kim: Why can't you do it?
- Jim: Because my father keeps the damn room locked. We need Edward to get us in.
- Kim: Well can't you just take the key when he's sleeping or something?
- Jim: You don't understand. The only thing that guy hangs onto tighter is his dick.”
Winona Ryder - Kim
Anthony Michael Hall - Jim

“- Izabella: Your daughter, what would you say to her?
- Cade Yeager: Brush your teeth, work hard, stay away from any boy in a band. Especially a drummer.”
Isabela Moner - Izabella
Mark Wahlberg - Cade Yeager

“I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant'.”
Dean Martin

“I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.”
Brandon Lee

“Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a badmood a lot.”
Adam Sandler

“Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children.”
Laurence Fishburne - Furious Styles

“He's not afraid of losing. He's afraid of losing your love. How many ball players grow up afraid of losing their fathers' love every time they come up to the plate?”

Joan Allen - Bonnie Waitzkin

“- Bud: What does your daddy do?
- Pam: Daddy does oil… and all that that implies.”
John Travolta - Bud
Madolyn Smith Osborne - Pam

“People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931. When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them... he was my father.”

Tyler Hoechlin - Michael Sullivan Jr.

You know, when you were a baby in your crib, your father looked down at you, he had but one hope: "someday, my son will grow to be a man". Well look at you now; you just got your asses whipped, by a bunch of goddamn nerds.
John Goodman - Coach Harris

"When I was a little girl, my daddy used to spank my bare bottom. Now he's gone. Will you take his place?". Call Misty!

Curtis Armstrong - Miles Dalby

“- Dalai Lama, 14 Years Old: I am not your son. And I've never thought of you as my father. You've been much too informal to me for that. Do you ever think about him? And what do you think about?
- Heinrich Harrer: It's not a conscious thought really, Kundun. He is always there. When I crossed Tibet he was with me. When I came to Lhasa he was...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk - Dalai Lama, 14 Years Old
Brad Pitt - Heinrich Harrer

“- Matilda: My father?
- Trunchbull: The guy with the stupid haircut!
- Matilda: I'm nothing like my father.
- Trunchbull: You're the spitting image. The apple never rots far from the tree!”
Mara Wilson - Matilda
Pam Ferris - Trunchbull

“- Angelo 'Snaps' Provolone: After the wedding, you'll move into a nice ground floor apartment.
- Lisa Provolone: Why a ground floor apartment?
- Angelo 'Snaps' Provolone: Because after I break his legs, he's not gonna make it up any steps!”
Sylvester Stallone - Angelo 'Snaps' Provolone
Marisa Tomei - Lisa Provolone

“He teach me how to fish, how to sail boat! He give me arms and hands and feet, feeling good outside and he teach me how to feel good inside!”

Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“I don't want your life!”

James Van Der Beek - Mox

“Listen to me, beta. I'm not your typical Pakistani father who says you must be a doctor. I'm saying... lawyer, accountant, estate agent. I'm giving you freedom, see?”
Kulvinder Ghir - Malik (Father)

“- Marianne Borg: You're a coward.
- Dr. Evald Borg: Yes. This life sickens me. I will not be forced to take on a responsibility that will make me live for one day longer than I want to. And you know that I mean what I say.”

Ingrid Thulin - Marianne Borg
Gunnar Björnstrand - Dr. Evald Borg

“- Bob Parr: I used to know what's right, but I'm not sure anymore. I just... wanna be a good dad.
- Violet Parr: You're not good... you're super.”
Craig T. Nelson - Bob Parr
Sarah Vowell - Violet Parr

“If you want to give me a present, give me a good life. That's something I can value.”

Raymond Massey - Adam Trask

- Dell Scott: You see, my dad was a artist.
- Philip Lacasse: He was?
- Dell Scott: Con. Con artist. I ain't never see him, though. Unless you wanna count the time we spent together in lockup. We was in prison together. Sweet, right? You know what he said when he saw me, man? He said, "welcome home". Can you imagine saying some shit like that to... (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Hart - Dell Scott
Bryan Cranston - Philip Lacasse

“I am a family man, and my most important role is a father to my son.”
Ed Skrein

“People don't accept mothers who drink too much wine and yell at their child and call him an asshole. I get it. I do it too. We can accept an imperfect dad. Let's face it, the idea of a good father was only invented like 30 years ago. Before that, fathers were expected to be silent and absent and unreliable and selfish, and can all say we want...” (continue)(continue reading)
Laura Dern - Nora Fanshaw