Steve Schirripa Quotes

Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.

Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words.

I've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

I'm not big with negotiating.

Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.

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.'

I'd like to form a club just for fathers. Specifically, fathers of daughters. There would be lots of overstuffed leather chairs, wood paneling, dim lights. The works.

When people tell me that I'm a hothead, I have one response, 'You got a problem with that?'

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.

I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I'm not going to humiliate myself. I'd rather drive a cab.

I tell my kids, 'I'm your father, not your friend - but I'm also the best friend you're ever going to have because no one is going to care for you the way I care about you.'

There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time.