Steve Schirripa
Steve Schirripa

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

Steve Schirripa
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
Steve Schirripa

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

Steve Schirripa
Steve Schirripa

I gotta say, as the father of two beautiful young daughters, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Steve Schirripa
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
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
Steve Schirripa

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

Steve Schirripa
Steve Schirripa

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
Steve Schirripa

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
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
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
Steve Schirripa

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

Steve Schirripa
Steve Schirripa

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
Steve Schirripa

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

Steve Schirripa
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
Steve Schirripa

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

Steve Schirripa
Steve Schirripa

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

Steve Schirripa
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
Steve Schirripa

I'm not big with negotiating.

Steve Schirripa
Steve Schirripa

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