Schirripa Steve Quotes

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

Steve Schirripa

#2. I didn't have time to change."
"Then you'll make it now. I'm not working on you with that
much death on your skin.

Karen Marie Moning

#3. 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.'

Steve Schirripa

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

Steve Schirripa

#5. Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

Steve Schirripa

#6. 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.

Steve Schirripa

#7. Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.

Richard Rohr

#8. I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

Damien Rice

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

Steve Schirripa

#10. We're here to get to know and study ourselves. The path, the way to do that, our main vehicle, is going to be meditation, and some sense of general wakefulness.

Pema Chodron

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

Steve Schirripa

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

Steve Schirripa

#13. This whole time, I'd been so busy pusing him away, telling him watever was between us wasn't real. And now I'd realized the depth of what he felt for me- what I felt for him- he was gone.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#14. I'm not big with negotiating.

Steve Schirripa

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

Steve Schirripa

#16. As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

Steve Schirripa

#17. 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.

Steve Schirripa

#18. 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.'

Steve Schirripa

#19. Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Tori Amos

#20. If it's time for your character to go, it's time for your character to go - you know what I mean? That's it. It doesn't matter who you are.

Steve Schirripa

#21. I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

Giovanni Ribisi

#22. If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.

Vicky McClure

#23. And by the way, if I'm a manwhore, you're a cockslut. Own it, bitch.

Karina Halle

#24. 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.

Steve Schirripa

#25. Thomas is 'crazy as a sprayed roach' when you make him mad, but he has a heart as big as Texas too.

Christina Mobley

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

Steve Schirripa

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

Steve Schirripa

#28. 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.

Steve Schirripa

#29. 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.

Steve Schirripa

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

Steve Schirripa

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

Steve Schirripa

#32. With girls, there's an insecurity that starts early on. It hangs around them, like some annoying kid from down the block who won't take the hint and go home when dinnertime comes. And moms are usually not great at giving their daughters confidence.

Steve Schirripa