I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying 'By the time you get this Daddy I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

I want to thank my mum my daddy my coach my teacher everybody in my life.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And by God he did. He lived up to his word.

I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like 'But Daddy he's a musician!'.

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.

Daddy loves you but he smacks you and he can shout at you and smash things but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that why would it be unusual?

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward so he can be proud of his daddy.

Well you know what I'm 60 years old and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape form or fashion and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy is how to be able to treat people.

I think my mom put it best. She said 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood the best in a marriage the kind of people we are trying to become.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.

My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.

My family you know are all still you know very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

My wife is so analytical with raising kids and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad it means they took after her side of the family.

Like a lot of you I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

Once I got married and had kids I moved away from romantic roles because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.