Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Schirripa

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Steve Schirripa.
Last updated on April 17, 2025.
Steve Schirripa

Steven Ralph Schirripa is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Bobby Baccalieri on The Sopranos and Detective Anthony Abetemarco on Blue Bloods. Schirripa is a producer and host of two Investigation Discovery series: Karma's A B*tch! and Nothing Personal. He was a regular cast member of The Secret Life of the American Teenager and the voice of Roberto in the Open Season series.

Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.
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.
'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words. — © Steve Schirripa
'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words.
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've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.
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.
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.'
Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.
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.
When people tell me that I'm a hothead, I have one response, 'You got a problem with that?'
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.'
Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.
Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.
As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.
There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time.
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.
Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.
I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.
I'm not big with negotiating.
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.
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
I gotta say, as the father of two beautiful young daughters, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
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.
David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.
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