My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

Seeing my father's handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.

It's very difficult to overtly do it. But I try to live my life consistently as a man and as a father.

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

I have been told for most of my life that the white man on my birth certificate is not my biological father and that my actual biological father is a light-skinned black man.

If the role is challenging enough, I don't see why I shouldn't play an older man or a father figure. It is not about playing what you are in real life. We are called actors for a reason!

Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.

I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.

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