My Daughter Quotes

Are you insinuatin' that my daughter is a liar?" "Oh, no, not at all. I'm saying your daughter is a liar. Surely you can appreciate the difference.

If my life depended on it - if my daughter's life depended on it - I'd want Mariano Rivera closing. Wouldn't you?

If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and error, the world is our oyster!

Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices.

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.

Even on the most tiresome of days, I need to give my daughter and husband one hundred percent of my energy. They deserve that love, and in the end, it only fuels my energy.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a scientist or an actress. My daughter really wants to be a scientist. I really want her to be a scientist, not an actress!

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.

I hope my daughter knows that in our house we can make messes and have fun and we'll laugh through it. Granted I don't want her to trash the house, but we do make a lot of messes.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.

I don't want my dad to say, 'My daughter is an actress on a TV show.' I want him to say, 'My daughter cares about people.' I would love to know that I'm a role model in Hollywood.

Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them in like a circus hand.

My daughter always behaved in restaurants. And if she didn't, she's going out. I mean, one of the parents is going to take her outside. Immediately.

In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

I'm a guy who should not have a lot of free time. But when it comes to vacation, I like to pull the plug completely. It's all about my daughter - I'm no longer the star of my own movie.

My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus.

You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after your daughter, it's the most beautiful thing in the world.

I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

My daughter was a beautiful child.

If I am not with my daughter, that's when all my meetings happen. That's when I get right on a plane. That's when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it's just all with her.

You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.

I've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.

My daughter very independent. But if she's upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She's great - a real tough cookie.

My daughter introduced me to myself.

I don't have the acting skills my daughter has.

I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.

When we had the girls, my daughter Jenny gave us like a Bible from my daughter of, "Don't feed them this; don't feed them that, if she says this, don't say that," It was crazy!

My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says, "Your Hero's Photo Here," and, "Your Hero's Story Here."

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

My daughter, I can't give up because she's watching and she's here and she's waiting for me to be an example. So, between her, myself, and my will, and me pushing myself, that's my inspiration.

There's nothing greater than a girl.... Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too.

My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.

I'm trying to teach my daughter about healthy eating.

I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.

I hate to sound cliché, but it would probably be the day my daughter was born. That was a pretty amazing experience.

I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive, but that [ the day my daughter was born] was one that's still with me.

The labor part wasn't so great, but seeing [my daughter] for the first time was pretty awesome. I mean, how does it get better than another actual person popping out of your stomach, you know?

I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

When I first held my daughter, right after she was born, I felt like it was the moment I'd been waiting my whole life for, and it just felt even more miraculous than I ever could have imagined.

I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else.

Hearing my daughter laugh is the best way to lift my spirit.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.