Schirripa Steve Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene. — Steve Schirripa

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

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television. — Steve Schirripa

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

I'm not big with negotiating. — Steve Schirripa

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

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

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

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

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

I wouldn't want to do anything like 'Minecraft' again, where it's, like, an on-going thing, and there are customers I have to keep happy. — Markus Persson

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

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

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. — Norman Schwarzkopf

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

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

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

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

Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us. — Julian Simon

We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view. — John M. McHugh

Where there's more of singing and less of sighing,
Where there's more of giving and less of buying,
And a man makes friends without half trying
That's where the West begins. — Arthur Chapman

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

As long as you believe it ... you can and will achieve it. Now that the ball is in your court ... go for it! — Timothy Pina