Sunday is Father's Day.

That means a new tie and a special Sunday dinner for dads everywhere in the known world.

This year, for a select group of celebrity dads, it's the very first Father's Day ever. Ryan Reynolds gets to celebrate his inaugural Father's Day thanks to the birth of his and Blake Lively's daughter in May.

It's a first for Ryan Gosling, too, who also has a daughter (with Eva Mendes) and for Justin Timberlake, whose baby boy was born in April. Sam Worthington, Armie Hammer and television's Reid Scott (Veep) are other celebs celebrating their very first one.

Awwww!

In honour of dads everywhere, here are 20 celeb words of wisdom about fatherhood and the joy and wonder it brings:

1) "The only way I can describe [fatherhood] - it sounds stupid, but - at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; It's just full all the time."

Matt Damon

2) "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

Anonymous

3) "I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure."

Louis C.K.

4) "It's great, but don't do it if you're not ready. It's a full-time job, it's a lot of work. But kids make it worth the whole thing."

Ben Affleck.

5) "I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask."

Will Arnett

6) "I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliché of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly."

Christian Bale

7) "My life is my childen."

Patrick Dempsey

8) "Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day."

Mike Myers

9) "A father carries pictures where his money used to be."

Anonymous

10) "I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe--that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this."

Tom Cruise

11) "My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'"

Michael Jordan

12) "I want to give them all the things I never had but make sure they understand it's not normal and that it takes hard work to get what you want. You have to provide them with the tools that will make them good people."

Mark Wahlberg

13) "Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on."

Brad Pitt

14) "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."

Sigmund Freud

15) "I think it's the best thing going, parenthood."

Woody Harrelson

16) "Babies laughing is like opium."

Neil Patrick Harris

17) "I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father."

David Beckham

18) "I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever."

Guy Ritchie

19) " I love fatherhood."

Jamie Dornan

20) "What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life."

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