Dad Quotes

 

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.|Pope John XXIII

The child is father of the man.|William Wordsworth

When I was 18          I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21        I was amazed to find out how much he’d learned in three years.|Frank Butler

Fathers are biological necessities  but social accidents.|Margaret Mead

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.|Spike Milligan

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.|Eminem

I inherited that calm from my father         who was a farmer. You sow          you wait for good or bad weather          you harvest  but working is something you always need to do.|Miguel Indurain

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.|Kent Nerburn

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.|Dawn French

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.|Aldous Huxley

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.|Orson Scott Card

Whenever I fail as a father or husband… a toy and a diamond always works.|Shah Rukh Khan

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.|Horace

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children       except in self-defense.|Fred Allen

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice           and then practice some more.|Pete Rose

My father was never anti-anything in our house.|Errol Flynn

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.|Publilius Syrus

I’m a father. It isn’t just my life any more. I don’t want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.|Billie Joe Armstrong

As Daddy said          life is 95 percent anticipation.|Gloria Swanson

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.|Cindy Crawford

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.|Halle Berry

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.|Harrison Ford

My father       he was like the rock the guy you went to with every problem.|Gwyneth Paltrow

If my father had hugged me even once     I’d be an accountant right now.|Ray Romano

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.|Imelda Marcos

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.|Victor Borge

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.|Enid Bagnold

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.|Michael Reagan

My father… had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.|Chief Joseph

I love my dad although I’m definitely critical of him sometimes          like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.|Liv Tyler

When a father           absent during the day          returns home at six  his children receive only his temperament not his teaching.|Robert Bly

I just wish I could understand my father.|Michael Jackson

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.|Charley Pride

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o’clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don’t know why there’s this big rush to do this.|Jeff Foxworthy

But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.|Buffalo Bill

I wanted to take up music   so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.|Jay London

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.|Damon Wayans

Rich men’s sons are seldom rich men’s fathers.|Herbert Kaufman

Being a father           being a friend           those are the things that make me feel successful.|William Hurt

Fathers in today’s modern families can be so many things.|Oliver Hudson

My dad always said ‘Don’t worry what people think     because you can’t change it.’|Daisy Donovan

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.|Jean de La Fontaine

There’s sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic         violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.|Dean Koontz

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.|DeForest Kelley

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.|Gertrude Stein

My father was grounded     a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.|Anthony Hopkins

All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.|George Eliot

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.|Joel Osteen

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.|Friedrich Nietzsche

Thirteen         13 children   and I love – I love them all. And I think I’ve been a good father to all of them.|Anthony Quinn

I pressed my father’s hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.|Chief Joseph

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one     particularly if he plays golf.|Bertrand Russell

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age          I knew I didn’t want to do what my dad did    which was work in an office.|Harrison Ford

My grandfather         along with Carnegie            was a pioneer in philanthropy       which my father then practiced on a very large scale.|David Rockefeller

I never had a speech from my father ‘this is what you must do or shouldn’t do’ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.|Adam Sandler

A father’s disappointment can be a very powerful tool.|Michael Bergin

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.|Simon Newcomb

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I’m a hands-on father.|Sean Penn

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours     I must look her straight in the eyes.|Prince Charles

My father wouldn’t get us a TV      he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.|Janis Joplin

My father wants me to be like my brother           but I can’t be.|Robert Mapplethorpe

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.|Annette Funicello

When I was a kid      I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad         and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.|Lou Brock

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.|Camryn Manheim

My father taught me how to substitute realities.|Mira Sorvino

A dramatic thing       the first time you stand up to your dad.|Lenny Kravitz

I’m a fun father         but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.|John Lithgow

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them but I didn’t. I decided that whatever trip I was on            they were going with me. You’re looking at a real daddy.|Barry White

Feels good to try       but playing a father I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.|Adam Sandler

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect          not even my mother.|Broderick Crawford

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.|Christopher Meloni

Babies don’t need fathers    but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.|Amy Heckerling

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child’s becoming a secure child in full    thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.|Clyde Edgerton

Because of my father           we are that Shining City on a Hill.|Michael Reagan

My father was an Episcopalian minister   and I’ve always been comforted by the power of prayer.|Anna Lee

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!|Terence

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.|Tom Bosley

I would never have done what I’d done if I’d considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.|Robert Mapplethorpe

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl he told me     ‘Don’t spend anything unless you have to.’|Dinah Shore

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all  whether we like it or not  perhaps even if we have never known them.|Angela Carter

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father’s lifestyle.|Tatum O’Neal

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.|James Levine

I was raised by free-spirited people          though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.|Diane Lane

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.|Marc Davis

I’m more comfortable with whatever’s wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn’t measure up to the standard he set.|John Malkovich

My father loved people       children and pets.|Tony Visconti

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.|Christine Keeler

Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don’t mean anything.|Oliver Hudson

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.|Mo Rocca

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question  he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.|Nick Cannon

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I’m a husband and a father.|Herbie Hancock

My dad always said ‘Champ          the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down     but how quickly he gets up.’|Joe Biden

Dad is and always will be my living          breathing superhero.|Bindi Irwin

I always wear my dad’s shirts.|Ananya Panday

When I was growing up      my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.|Bill Gates

The reason I made my stage name Kali Uchis is because it’s still me in the sense that          my dad called me ‘Kali Uchis’ my whole life. It’s still something I’ve been called since I was a baby. It’s still me.|Kali Uchis

I want to be a superhero dad to where my kid feel like everything I do is nothing wrong.|Lil Baby

I really love Linkin Park     and I loved Chester Bennington    and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park   Avril Lavigne           The Beatles  Sarah McLachlan    I just really loved Linkin Park            and their production is really sick.|Billie Eilish

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston my Dad used to take us to the driving range.|Ron White

I grew up speaking Korean but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.|John Cho

My dad wouldn’t buy me tight pants. I had to get my own money to buy them.|Young Thug

My dad’s cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years    his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He became paranoid and thought people were stealing from him     when often he was just misplacing things.|Tess Gerritsen

My dad used to say  ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.|Phil McGraw

My dad is just chill.|Rhea Ripley

Ten years ago            I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.|Sara Pascoe

My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez        and I have a darker complexion    which throws people for a loop. My mother’s first husband is Mexican. That’s where I got Lopez.|Seth Rollins

I was born in Orange County – in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California       but I claim East Coast. I’m sorry   I don’t rep California.|Michael B. Jordan

My dad said to me growing up: ‘When all is said and done       if you can count all your true friends on one hand        you’re a lucky man.’|Josh Charles

My dad is my support          and he is the best support that I could ever have.|Thora Birch

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?|Henny Youngman

My dad always taught me never to give up in my mind. You can never really beat me. It sounds ridiculous      but I will always come back for you. You can’t beat someone who never gives up. I could lose 100 times to you           but I will always get you. I will die trying. This applies not only to swimming but to my life as well.|Chad le Clos

You have to be confident in who you are and what you’re doing. Of course  you try to evolve. I would never tell you ‘Today is the best I will ever be.’ I’m always trying to be a better chef           a better dad            a better person.|Guy Fieri

I literally started from zero; I had zero subscribers. I remember my first subscriber – I was so excited            and then I looked    and it was my dad.|Emma Chamberlain

I’m dying to be a great dad one day           whenever that day comes.|Drake

My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I’ve made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.|Colin Hanks

I love eating at my dad’s pub          the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.|Rita Ora

I am very happy to say I look just like my dad. But mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are           and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.|James Blunt

Jim Swan was my father     but Reg Barnes was my dad.|Jimmy Barnes

Dad was         is        and always will be one of the kindest      most generous          gentlest souls I’ve ever known    and while there are few things I know for certain right now     one of them is that not just my world but the entire world is forever a little darker       less colorful and less full of laughter in his absence.|Zelda Williams

One of my insecurities was my looks. I was short          cute and chubby      and Dad used to call me his ‘little fat sausage.’ But I always knew I had musical talent.|Suzi Quatro

When Dad passed away      grandpa took on that mantle of teaching me how to tackle at football or taking me and mum to cricket.|Jonny Bairstow

I always remember what my dad told me when I decided to turn into an actor. He was emphatic that whatever I do I should get accepted by the audiences who watch my films.|Karthi

My dad and sister are vegetarian and I was brought up as one  but I ate a bit of fish and meat. After the attack my oesophagus melted and I had to have plastic stents put into my throat to rebuild it         so I couldn’t swallow and I was fed via a high-calorie drip through my stomach.|Katie Piper

The first time I went to New York I went with my first boyfriend      Clark. His dad had just bought an apartment in New York  and my dad dropped us off and we were there for a week on our own. I must have been 15 or 16. I remember I went to Harlem and bought a goose jacket. That was the hip            hot thing.|Kate Moss

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well   I think my dad is my hero  because he’s someone I look up to every day.|Tom Brady

I grew up watching my dad be a singer     so it’s something I’ve always been interested in.|Sofia Richie

My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now          and I have the waders on            and I’ve got a fly rod in my hand  or I am fishing for bass      I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?|Matt Lauer

I speak a little bit of Italian yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum’s from Naples and my dad’s from Sicily      so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.|Luke Pasqualino

My dad told me when I was very young   that I should not get married before 30. His only advice to me was to live my life.|Sushant Singh Rajput

If your dad died before you were born      yeah   it hurts – but it’s not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it’s any better – but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was       like    the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left        he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.|Jay-Z

I was bored one day so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun – I liked it for an actual job.|Millie Bobby Brown

My dad is this typical orthodox     narrow-minded Punjabi man in front of whom you can’t even utter the word called ‘boyfriend.’|Parineeti Chopra

My parents were divorced when I was three        and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother           and the summers with my dad.|Patricia Polacco

I have no complaints or grudges against my dad. Actually my father’s remarriage was a blessing in disguise for us.|Urfi Javed

My mum was raised Jewish            my dad is very scientifically minded       and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit     but apart from that  I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.|Ben Barnes

My dad was a plumber. That’s hard work. He never missed a day of work. I will never disrespect him by not showing up for an athletic competition that has a maximum duration of 25 minutes. There should be forfeiture if you have to pull out of a fight. If you don’t show up    it should be a loss on your record.|Chael Sonnen

My parents split up when I was 16 and     while Mum came to a few Tests   Dad didn’t make many. So I was glad he was at Lord’s.|Glenn McGrath

I’ve got my dad’s height and smoking habit. But I think I’ve got my mum’s looks and sensibilities.|Max Irons

Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.|Damon Wayans          Jr.

When I was a child  I had wax in my ears. Dad didn’t take me to the doctor he used me as a night light.|Les Dawson

My dad’s probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that’s not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.|Leonardo DiCaprio

From my dad I learned to be good to people        to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.|Luke Bryan

I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For           like    six years       I didn’t see my dad. And        now    this was the six years of being a teenager.|Trevor Noah

My dad was a Methodist minister.|George McGovern

I always remember my dad’s blue overalls and the blue overcoat he wore in winter and I remember my mum’s big old Afro. Sometimes          though           in my memories       smudges have replaced their faces.|Mark Hunt

After my parents’ divorce when I was 4    I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled around     I was incapable of enjoying the day’s activities  of being in the moment because I was already dreading the inevitable goodbye of Sunday evening.|Rob Lowe

My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He’s just a good person   and he could entertain a brick wall.|Thomas Rhett

My dad is always there for me       and no matter how busy     he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.|Ram Charan

When the album ‘Duke’ came out  by Genesis    Phil Collins beat Dad in a drummers poll. My dad got me to learn ‘Turn It On Again’ by Genesis. I’d play it     and he’d go   ‘Do it again   ‘ until I got it right. I’d play it until I nailed it     and then he went      ‘I don’t see what the big deal is. My 12-year-old son could play that song.’|Jason Bonham

My dad’s great. He’s my biggest supporter. He’s always told me that whatever I choose to do        I can do it. I just gotta put my mind to it.|Apolo Ohno

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict       I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia        we wouldn’t be drafted until we were 20.|Mel Gibson

I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he’ll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat and we will come into that party and just rip it up.|Melissa McCarthy

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.|Stephen King

Growing up in Luton           we’d always eat on a cloth placed on the floor of the living room      with no TV allowed. There were no chairs back in Bangladesh and Dad wanted to keep the tradition   so we never owned a dining table.|Nadiya Hussain

I was born Gaynor Hopkins            one of seven children. My mum    Elsie  and dad         Glyndwr            always said they had seven children        although my sister Paulene was stillborn.|Bonnie Tyler

One day I said to my dad    ‘Are you disappointed that I’m working a minimum-wage job and I didn’t go to college?’ I’ll never forget his response. He said     ‘It’s not about how much money you make or what your job is        but it’s more about your character. For that         I’m proud of you.’|Josh Dun

I think if I had a dad I would have went the normal college route. I’m so stoked my life panned out how it was.|Tyler   The Creator

I couldn’t walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.|David Icke

I was born in 1968   just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.|Carre Otis

My father came from a very poor background    but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn’t want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had   a better shot at a better life.|Brad Pitt

My dad always told me        ‘I don’t care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it’s the world’s best window cleaner.’|Bruce Dickinson

I didn’t come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.|Johnny Iuzzini

I loved playing cricket from my childhood. My dad made me play in the streets      and my interest grew. He put me in a club   seeing this. My habit grew from that point.|Babar Azam

My dad used to say to me    ‘You look more like me than I do.’|Dhani Harrison

I always wanted to be a surgeon    because I had a lot of admiration for my father  who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt a sister of my dad        died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.|Magdi Yacoub

My dad just wants me to dedicate myself to playing and to focus on the ball.|Neymar

When I was 12          my friend and I tried to sneak onto a plane from my hometown of Cleveland to New York City! My dad encouraged us – he was a wild guy     big on jokes.|Molly Shannon

My dad died of a stroke.|William Shatner

When I was a child  I wanted to be a jockey. I love horses      but it’s not practical to have one in London. I also wanted to be an accountant          which isn’t glamorous at all           but my dad was one      and I quite liked maths.|Lydia Leonard

My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.|Raf Simons

My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.|Robert Pattinson

The whole thing for me is that I did ‘Full House’ and ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos     ‘ and I look like a dentist  and I’m a dad. Being known as a dirty comedian turned into this weird thing. It’s people’s image of me.|Bob Saget

People who think my dad is a bully           you should probably just hang out with him for a day and see what happens.|LaMelo Ball

‘Superstar’ Billy Graham was someone that my dad taught from A to Z          from tying up to submission wrestling. Billy was more of a showman than a wrestler. My dad used to love tying Billy in knots          and Iron Sheik would be watching.|Bret Hart

My dad had two        sometimes three jobs. Besides running the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan            he did jazz concerts and he ran this great jazz label      Commodore.|Billy Crystal

My father grew up in Levittown    L.I.     in the first tract housing built for G.I.’s. His dad had stormed the beaches of Omaha and died when my father was very young. My dad had to raise himself      pretty much.|Bert Kreischer

Seeing my dad crying is the worst.|A. J. Pritchard

I don’t think my dad really knew what to do with me     as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn’t do kid stuff. There were no kid’s menus; you weren’t allowed to order off the kid’s menu at dinner – we had to try something from the adult menu.|Emma Watson

While my parents both worked full-time  we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research skills to consult. And         along with my dad  she even ran a soul food restaurant for my great-aunt.|Stacey Abrams

My dad gave me a haircut… and it wasn’t a very good one. When I went out of the house  my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.|Chili Davis

My British mum met my American dad when she was on holiday in the United States when she was 19. She kinda never looked back. I was born in the United States        raised in Montana and London.|Philip Winchester

If you ask my dad     I’m always the person that found the little bird out of the nest and is trying to put it back or take care of it.|Jill Ellis

I love my dad and I’m proud to be his daughter.|Paris Jackson

My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan           so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.|Bill Hader

When I was fifteen years old          my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends.|Steve-O

I’m a dad        and I can tell you it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.|Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Because my dad abused me I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is          if we don’t learn to submit to Joyce Meyerity          we won’t ever learn to submit to God.|Joyce Meyer

My dad’s a beautiful man    but like a lot of Mexican men        or men in general    a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity – intuition and compassion and tenderness – and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more           I would say   conscious      evolved.|Carlos Santana

In the beginning        I was a stay-at-home dad. So I could actually focus on being a rapper. I could write. I could come up with ideas.|Blueface

My dad came over from Ireland when he was 13 and lived on the streets       working on building sites            and has just retired from his job delivering furniture for John Lewis. My mum has had the same job for 30 years as a sales assistant at Marks and Spencer. They’ve always been really great; they just want me to be happy.|Amanda Hale

My dad was this Jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur type. I secretly think he may be a spy       when I really think about it and I kind of connect the pieces. That’s what led us to moving to Japan when I was four.|Bishop Briggs

My dad died right after performing at the Friars’ roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have that tape somewhere. There’s still a lot of good jokes in there. I mean    that was 1958.|Albert Brooks

Although I grew up in London       I spent summers in Missouri         where my dad lived. It’s quite a liberal town   Kansas City. You’d be surprised.|Hayley Atwell

My dad is a motorcycle guy           not some Hollywood dude.|Shia LaBeouf

I have a mug that actually verifies that I’m the world’s best dad. That’s a mug. That’s not me talking. You can’t just buy those.|Stephen Colbert

I have my dad’s shape. No booty.|Queen Latifah

My dad didn’t want me to listen to Zeppelin        I think because it reminded him of his wilder days            and now he’s a retired Southern Baptist minister.|Aaron Paul

You can put my dad in any situation and he’s going to figure it out. He’s going to figure the people out and how to get along            how to make everyone comfortable.|Maverick Carter

I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won’t even start eating until he’s sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose.|Ben Roethlisberger

My dad’s method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football            tennis golf    cricket but I loved my snooker.|Ronnie O’Sullivan

My kids gotta understand: they gotta make a sacrifice   having a superstar dad.|Future

I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico      dad from the South Bronx.|Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants      they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes  I had some ugly clothes growing up         and I never had any privileges. In some ways            I think the person that I am now    I think it’s good that I had that kind of tough upbringing.|Amy Chua

Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that’s too much to ask         as it almost always is for me          think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.|Lyle Lovett

I’m a middle-aged dad         which means I have no social time or life to speak of   and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.|Dee Bradley Baker

I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City           then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he’d thought I would come to no good.|Michael Heizer

I have six brothers and sisters. My mother has six kids from two different marriages. And we would just sit around making fun of each other’s dad     and all our dads had real problems.|Michael Che

And my dad drilled it in my head  you know      ‘If you want it bad enough and you’re willing to make the sacrifices  you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself.|Jennie Finch

My dad used to DJ too         so we used to hear music all the time.|Jme

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.|Clint Eastwood

I remember opening my dad’s closet and there were       like    40 suits         every color of the rainbow          plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just… he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.|Jon Hamm

On rare occasions    Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in in the late hours of the evening or night   carrying a cigar        when he’d obviously had a good dinner.|Ridley Scott

I ate supper after Dad saw the evening shift down the shaft      and I went to sleep to the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of an arc welder at the little tipple machine shop during the hoot-owl shift.|Homer Hickam

My dad was a very strong man       very stubborn as well.|Paul Pogba

‘Dirt On My Boots’ is a very different song. I heard the melody           and I heard the lyrics          and I heard the drive of that song. I totally related. It was kinda me when I was on my bulldozer working for my dad.|Jon Pardi

Be there for my dad like he was for me.|Beau Biden

My dad was a truck driver  and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine          I was driving a truck.|Johnny Van Zant

My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven   and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren’t affected.|Michelle Keegan

My mother had very humble beginnings – to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat no air-conditioning – ‘no foolishness        ‘ as he would call it.|Blake Lively

A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes     I even feel a strong sense of connection            something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.|Brandon Lee

A lot of people don’t realize this    but probably the one person that gets made fun of in ‘South Park’ more than anybody is my dad. Stan’s father         Randy – my dad’s name is Randy – that’s my drawing of my dad; that’s me doing my dad’s voice. That is just my dad. Even Stan’s last name        Marsh            was my dad’s stepfather’s name.|Trey Parker

My dad raised me with some good advice: ‘Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends         but you’ll never have enemies       because people will always know where you’re coming from.’|Pink

My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan     and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.|Dak Prescott

My dad was so much fun growing up.|Abby Elliott

My dad doesn’t get any of my jokes. He laughs at them but he doesn’t understand them. He’s just laughing because people around him are laughing.|Zach Galifianakis

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.|John Wooden

I think my favorite movie I watched with my dad would be ‘A Knight’s Tale’ with Heath Ledger.|Charles Melton

I have two brown boys I have to raise and I have to teach them the inequalities that being a black man comes with. That’s a tough conversation to have with a young kid who doesn’t see anything          who’s always sheltered        who can get anything he wants     who’s going to go to the best schools but at the same time he’s a black boy and his dad is black.|A. J. Green

It was my dad who encouraged me to come into films.|Govinda

My dad once told me           he was like   ‘The only time you should lie is when someone’s holding a gun to your head and says ‘Okay    lie or I’m going to shoot you.’ And that really stuck with me.|Jaden Smith

Luckily          my dad doesn’t sing.|Abby Huntsman

In 1881          my dad’s grandparents        who were Norwegian farmers       immigrated to the United States – the same year my great grandfather from Laguna Pueblo was put on a train to Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania.|Deb Haaland

Dad correctly said to me      ‘Gina  you’ll rue the day if I let you take your mother’s shares for the benefit of the children.’ He was right.|Gina Rinehart

My stepdad I always used to think was my real dad and even to this day I still do. He’s been unbelievable            I love him like a real dad.|Aaron Mooy

I learned as my dad’s kid that unless you physically can’t get there      unless you physically can’t do it            you need to show up for work.|Joe Buck

My dad died  I think           at 87. So I’ll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases           the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I’m not trying to lose weight.|B. B. King

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16            but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.|Stephen Graham

I often talk with other actors about that time when you’ve just finished a job because I think you do take on the characteristics of some of the characters you play. Sometimes it can be a great thing and sometimes it’s a bit haunting because you’re not quite sure how to leave it on set. My dad talks about it as being ‘de-personalised.’|Ben Barnes

My dad is French and he’s my number one style icon.|Camille Rowe

Mum is a photographer       and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.|Lykke Li

‘Boy’ was about my dad.|Taika Waititi

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.|Shakira

I’m very at ease         and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been     and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am     because I’m actually like my dad!|David Bowie

My Dad will always be my coach. He knows me better than anyone.|Bernard Tomic

Obviously      having my dad’s last name I think that’s more the chip on my shoulder because it has been a mixed blessing. I always will have the Flair stigma        and I think that’s where I deserve to be there or this   or I’m not just his daughter. I think that’s the chip on my shoulder.|Charlotte Flair

My mum and dad weren’t together when I was born. When I was a teenager dad brought this girl round: here’s your sister. She was only two years old     and I never saw her again from that day.|Kano

During the Depression        my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios       so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard    and he cared for the dogs.|Betty White

Where I come from  you don’t really talk about how much you’re earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I’m certainly not going to tell the world. I’m doing well.|Paul McCartney

When I was a teenager        I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn’t know all the rules          and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call       and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler        and I had to kick him out of the stands.|Adam DeVine

My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we’re purebred New Yorkers.|Ansel Elgort

I think ‘Family Guy’ and ‘American Dad’ have definitely staked out their own style and territory  and now the accusations are coming that ‘The Simpsons’ is taking jokes from ‘Family Guy.’ And I can tell you     that ain’t the case.|Matt Groening

My dad was raised Orthodox in Atlanta. He speaks Hebrew. He speaks Yiddish. He married a Jewish woman who is not Orthodox          so I was brought up by two different kinds of Jews.|Alex Borstein

My dad’s French       and I spent my summers in France growing up. So I speak French fluently  and obviously      I speak English because I was raised in New York        and I grew up here.|Timothee Chalamet

When I was 13          I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.|Ashton Kutcher

My dad was very intelligent           had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.|Dolores Huerta

My dad kind of liked racing and motorsports      but wasn’t a big fan it wasn’t like he watched every race or whatever.|Lando Norris

The word ‘racist’ is a permanent stain against my name. It’s worse than a criminal record. Some people will never forgive me. Others will accept I made a terrible mistake and recognise I have learnt from it. It’s on YouTube when my kids type in their dad’s name and it comes up ‘Jamie Vardy racist’. On Google           too. It’s horrible.|Jamie Vardy

I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother       he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN           but I usually wind up watching ‘Breaking Bad.’|Norm MacDonald

I was born in Canada           and then my dad played pro soccer in England and then also on an island off the coast of Portugal. So we lived there for    like    10 years. And then we moved to Minnesota. So I feel like I’ve experienced a lot of different cultures and I’m still figuring out who I am.|Kylie Bunbury

My dad is a really honest    hardworking straight guy.|Joe Lando

My dad’s paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building          and they were           like    the stars of the building      especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.|Aaron Lazar

My dad is the first to say that Mum deals with the mortgage payments          the bills         the rota            things like that         while my dad is the emotional one who keeps the home together. He’s the nurturer          but together  they work perfectly.|Cush Jumbo

Just because my dad is Clint Eastwood doesn’t mean I don’t have to work for a living.|Scott Eastwood

My dad wanted me to play football so bad           he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.|Young Thug

Humans have voids  and you need things to fill voids… I didn’t have a dad to fill that male model void            so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle        that’s what I gravitated to.|Tyler            The Creator

I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah’s Witness. They didn’t like it – you were ‘weird’. And on Saturday mornings    you’d be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad           thinking        ‘Oh my God  I know whose door this is  and I’ll have to see them on Monday.’ It was terrible.|Luke Evans

I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs        which came out shortly before I was born        and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don’t think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.|Aaron Swartz

My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid but I didn’t retain much of that.|Lucas Till

I used to be a calligrapher for weddings and events – that was my side job while I was auditioning. I think handwritten notes are a lost art form. When I booked my first pilot      my dad wrote me a letter that I still have. The idea of someone taking the time to put pen to paper is really special.|Meghan Markle

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.|Eric Stoltz

I think the best of us comes when we are working together collectively. And it doesn’t mean that we can’t disagree. We’ve got to learn  as Dad taught us      to disagree without being disagreeable.|Martin Luther King III

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy           Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place – folk music      rock n’ roll  gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.|Sam Barry

I finally got the dad I always wanted and then he left. At 18     19 years old  I was really upset and had to work through that.|Bart Millard

I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I’ve never been to a lesson     so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument     but we always had guitars around. My dad taught me to play drums for ‘Love Actually         ‘ and I still play drums now. But I’m not a ‘drummer.’ I’m not a ‘guitarist.’ I’m trying to be a bassist.|Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Everything that I’ve done in my life is always I wanted to be the best in everything I do. I want to be the best husband       the best dad  the best receiver.|A. J. Green

My dad was a quiet assassin. He was really charming and smiley and softly spoken but he could knock you out in a second.|Jimmy Barnes

Our dad was an iron worker           a really tough guy. He raised us to be strong and stand up for ourselves. Whatever we want         we go and get it. Sometimes          you have to take it.|Baron Corbin

I remember reading the book ‘Rich Dad   Poor Dad       ‘ and I remember writing my goals down  and my number one goal in life was just to be a good husband and a good father someday. That was number one      as a 17-year-old kid.|Henry Cejudo

I went off to Harvard Law School for six weeks and then I said         ‘Doggone this           it’s not what I want to do.’ I remember when I told my dad I was leaving law school            and I wanted to go into football. He said           ‘Be a good coach.’|Marv Levy

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew         and we didn’t know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer – a very hardworking guy           a one-horse labor lawyer – and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.|David Mamet

Dad was very into electronics        robotics and computers      so I was interested in what he was doing.|Rhianna Pratchett

My parents have been volleyball players and my dad is an Arjuna awardee in volleyball.|P. V. Sindhu

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you’ll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they’re both enjoying it.|Tim Vine

Every year since I was very small  my family – Mum    Dad    sister Charlie-Ann and brother Stephen – and I have been holidaying in Carvoeiro in the Algarve          so that has very fond memories for me.|Pixie Lott

I learned from my dad’s mistakes. I think that’s why I’m so into my son. I bring him lunch every day: McDonald’s   Taco Bell      whatever junk food a kid likes      I will bring it for him. I’ve canceled gigs so I could be at moments for him. That wasn’t a big thing for my dad.|Jo Koy

At my house  it’s an ‘If dad says it            you can say it’ kind of deal so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.|A.J. Styles

I buried my dad on a Thursday and showed up for work on Friday.|John Schnatter

I was obsessed with the Turtles      the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There’s Leonardo    Donatello            Michelangelo           Raphael and my dad used to call me Callemundo          saying you’re the fifth turtle.|Callum Smith

I want to learn from the mistakes my dad made.|Charlie Adam

My dad farmed         my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.|Sam Brownback

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven’t fallen since.|Hugh Laurie

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There’s an insanity that goes with writing – a mad scientist thing that you have to go through – and sacrificing a kid’s upbringing to do that is not an option.|Eddie Vedder

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together go on trips. It was our soccer      but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.|Shaun White

I grew up in an era where Dad worked     Mum looked after the family         and if I think of the qualities she brought to that – nurture and support are so valuable.|Sean Dyche

My mother’s a psychologist my stepfather’s a psychologist      my stepmother is a therapist and my dad’s a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know someone on some form of prescription medicine.|Zach Braff

One time        when I was really young    my dad and brother were watching ‘Team America       ‘ the Trey Parker and Matt Stone movie. I walked in and they didn’t know I was there     but I got really freaked out by the marionettes – just the look of them    their mouths those grins. That cemented in my brain.|Finn Wolfhard

My dad played junior college basketball  and he always showed me clips of Michael Jordan.|Aaron Judge

My Dad has been on board for the entire project. He has produced Hello’ and made sure that everything is just right this time.|Akhil Akkineni

My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works    works works works works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who’s logged more hours than that guy.|Bill Burr

Unfortunately           I never saw Pele play. What I know of him is through my grandfather          my dad’s dad        who used to talk to me and tell me about how he played.|Neymar

My dad gave up his job; he stopped working – for me. Without that    I definitely wouldn’t be as successful.|Chloe Kim

In 2009          I fractured my skull in a freak accident at an L.A. restaurant. I suffered a seizure and was rushed into hospital. I was so out of it that I refused to let them scan my brain. My dad rushed to my bedside and talked me into having the CAT scan – he told me that I might die if I didn’t go through with it.|Eliot Sumner

God is my psychologist. And my dad is probably the best sport psychologist in the world.|Katie Taylor

I’m worried because of my mother she’s going to see my performance and she’s quite hard. She’s going to see me naked. And my Dad        woah. Yeah  they’re going to see me like a woman       you know?|Eva Green

I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books     things like P.G. Wodehouse books and ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte.|Bill Bryson

My dad is a phenomenal skier.|Beau Biden

My dad used to be a rapper he had a rap group. They did proper old school boom-bap music. He had a high top and everything.|AJ Tracey

If it wasn’t for my sport and my father      I’d probably be a fallen statistic. I’d be dead; I’d be in jail. Luckily          I had a great dad in my life.|Apolo Ohno

I get on fine with my mum and dad           but if they want to see the grandchildren they come to me.|Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Here’s something that’s interesting if you look at basic metrics or numbers in this country – 71% of African-American men: no dad at home. No disciplinarian. Fathers are often the louder voice      the disciplinarian. Many of those kids don’t grow up with a dad.|Colin Cowherd

I’m a junior    so my dad’s name is Thomas Rhett Akins as well. So literally from the day I was born            it was Thomas Rhett. It wasn’t Thomas or Rhett it was Thomas Rhett.|Thomas Rhett

My dad spent most of the ’50s and early ’60s actually acting as sort of an advance man for the Justice Department   as a civil rights lawyer. So it was actually reading his papers after he passed away a few years ago that first started me thinking about this… What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man?|Bill Foster

In my heart    I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.|Terry Pratchett

Whether I do an original film         a dance          or a remake of my dad’s hit songs I have always been compared to him.|Ram Charan

I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin I started in elementary school. Drums actually came when I was in a program called ‘Rock Star            ‘ which was really awesome. We were doing a song by the Ramones  so I thought  ‘Why not play the drums?’|Amandla Stenberg

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant     and it was infectious.|Bill Nighy

By the time we woke up on Sundays        my dad would have left home to get mutton. It was a kind of stew with thick gravy that my mother used to make in a pressure cooker. Even after the mutton was over    the cooker would still have some masala left. I used to polish it off with some rice.|Anubhav Sinha

I was in the bath at the time and my dad came running in and said      ‘Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?’ and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.|Daniel Radcliffe

My dad didn’t believe that I was going to make it through school        and that was the only thing I was determined to do       because he said that I wasn’t going to do it.|Al Green

Nowadays      if you have a mustache       people look at you like you’re crazy. But when I was growing up        I never saw my dad without a mustache.|Kevin Connolly

I’d like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad’s message – his legacy – lives on.|Bindi Irwin

I can imagine Dad joking about how hard it’d be to get an actor to give back when it’s hard enough to ask them to give a good performance.|Zelda Williams

I think there’s nothing better than laughing in life           so that’s nice to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It’s ’cause I think life is hard. You know     my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that’s fine.|Joan Cusack

I’m just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman        we don’t want him to feel too entitled.|Julian Casablancas

I’m a man. I’m not gonna wear dad jeans or whatever you call them.|David Harbour

I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells  and I came out         and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He’s got a big schnozz on him           too.|Vernon Wells

My dad told me         ‘If you’re going to go out there and play baseball           or you’re going to play basketball or football           work hard at it no matter what. I want you to have fun with your buddies            but you have to put in the time because this is your craft.’ He didn’t just want me to be good. He pushed me to that next level.|Aaron Judge

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented         naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.|Drake

I always tell my dad he was training me to be a pro before he even knew it.|Aaron Donald

My dad’s a doctor     and he’d watch ‘Grey’s Anatomy   ‘ and he’d be like       ‘This is not okay. This isn’t what it’s like.’ And we’re like  ‘Shut up         it’s not about that. That’s not why we’re watching it.’|Emily Bett Rickards

I showed my dad the first episode of ‘Toast of London’ the other night. He laughed a bit    but when it finished          he just turned to me and said         ‘You’re an idiot.’ I loved that.|Matt Berry

My early memories are full of football talk around the house   of Dad standing on the terraces at Ayresome Park         of the occasional precious new pair of boots.|Brian Clough

I was very young      and I remember this heated           passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam something called a Watergate        and some guy named Gerald Ford who my dad knew who had just become president     and how all these things fit together.|Bill Huizenga

My overwhelming memory of being a child is the huge amount of love I felt for my mum. She was my everything     because she was both my mum and my dad.|Gerard Butler

My dad makes me hiss with laughter.|Natasia Demetriou

Well    my dad did a lot of Kung Fu when I was growing up    so he taught me a lot about mental toughness. Ways to slow your heart rate down    slow your breathing down to take control of your body so you can push yourself to the next limit.|Jamal Murray

My mother is very emotional as well        but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher           so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair       but they are born-again.|Katy Perry

When my dad died   I had to go to therapy.|Pete Davidson

Music’s been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and   at school       if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.|Julian Lennon

I ended up getting drafted by the Colorado Rockies on June 8  2010 and the next day         my dad passed away  in June 9       2010. So I’m at the biggest high of my life on June 8th. And the next day            June 9th        he’s gone.|Russell Wilson

I used to go to Sheen High Street with my dad on a Saturday   and there was a butcher next door to the fishmonger. I hated the smell of the fishmonger but I found the smell of the butcher’s much more appealing. And I liked the big knives. I thought it looked like a decent job.|Rory Kinnear

My parents separated when I was 2           and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I’d go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad  but L.A. was home.|F. Gary Gray

At a meet and greet in a nightclub in Texas         a girl who looked about 15 years old gave me a VHS copy of ‘Adventures in Babysitting           ‘ and she whispered in my ear that it’s really just home movie footage of her dad practicing judo.|Katya Zamolodchikova

My dad was the manager at the 45 000-acre ranch          but he owned his own 1      200-acre ranch            and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.|Dave Brubeck

My dad is a preacher. Growing up I went to church every time the doors were open.|Morgan Wallen

I grew up in Birmingham    but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad  Romeo           was a long-distance lorry driver and my mother         Mayleen        worked in catering.|David Harewood

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people’s sacred status regardless of the past.|Steve Irwin

When I first started snowboarding my dad pretty much dragged me into it. I wasn’t old enough to be like     ‘Oh     I wanna snowboard!’ you know?|Chloe Kim

My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs           or pizza joints.|Amy Adams

When it comes to guys        my dad is the measure of the perfect man. And that’s a pretty tough standard to match up to.|Anushka Shetty

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied   to want more and know that what is done is done.|Thierry Henry

Once I was in a shopping centre with some Western Sydney Wanderers boys and this kid came up to me and said   ‘Hi I’m a Kuhlman   we have the same dad and my mum’s got photos of you as a baby.’ I was shocked           lost for words           really uncomfortable. I knew he’d had kids but no idea how many or age.|Aaron Mooy

Dad’s funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back        a lone Marine stood silently  then left. People told me he’d saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.|Ian Watson

I was born with a shotgun in my hand      chasing pheasant through the cornfields. My dad probably started taking me out when I was 4            5 or 6 years old.|Adam Vinatieri

My dad taught me     like    no matter what         when I go out and play against these bigger players            just to be myself. I knew that I was good enough and that I had the ability to. I never shy away from anyone  and I don’t think anyone should.|Christian Pulisic

I grew up in Edinburgh       but my dad’s from Glasgow           and my mum’s from Chingford in Essex            and I spent time in Ireland too     so I was always somebody who absorbed accents. I would come back from visits         very much to the annoyance of friends and family        with an accent based on where I’d been.|Chloe Pirrie

For me            it’s about moderation and discipline         and that’s something I picked up from my dad. I don’t believe in rigorous workouts but believe in eating right going to bed early   and getting a proper workout.|Akkineni Nagarjuna

As my dad said         you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life   and not takers.|Phil Crane

My dad has been to every soccer game that I’ve played in         both at the amateur level and at the professional level     and he always had great things to say whether we won or we lost      whether I felt great or not so great.|Alex Morgan

No one saw me cry over my dad’s death for almost nine years. I hid what I felt        bottling up my emotions so tightly that almost nothing leaked out.|Jonny Bairstow

Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.|Ben Miller

I was raised by a single dad. Dad’s idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters          drop her at the arcade         and tell her not to talk to strangers.|Aisha Tyler

Dad was a retired chemist who       in his 60s      fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries           Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.|Tamsin Greig

I’ve wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. ‘I’ve had a very serious round of dramatic training and I like action films that take their characters seriously        so I figure I’m making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-’em-up picture.|Brandon Lee

My dad has children by four different mothers.|Alicia Vikander

When I was younger I’d always forget stuff. I think there was probably 4-5 times where we’d drive 30 minutes to a town for the baseball tournament    and all of a sudden  I’d get to the field and look in my bag      and I didn’t have my cleats. So my dad had to race all the way home to get my cleats and get back before the game started so I could play.|Aaron Judge

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.|Jim Carrey

The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year.|Amanda Hale

I went to many games with my dad           Kevin and looked up to the players. It’s surreal that now young fans are looking up to me.|Aaron Ramsey

My dad is a doctor   a professor of psychiatry   and my mum is a psychotherapist.|Ben Barnes

My dad cut my hair once – I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.|Alexa Chung

Dad was a baker       and we lived above the bakery      so I was always popping down to have an apple pie or a doughnut or a custard or gypsy tart: I had a very sweet tooth   and I think that that was what got me into doing what I do now.|Paul Hollywood

The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they’re doing something that is unorthodox.|Tony Hawk

My dad told me         ‘Whatever you do    don’t dance. Do something else. Do anything else.’ He knew how much hard work you have to put in   how hard it is to make a living      and he didn’t want me to do it.|A. J. Pritchard

How well we understand the kids’ world is very important       and I myself am not claiming to be the perfect dad    and from feedbacks from Jo          I understand that more time should be spent with our children.|Suriya

The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.|Ray Liotta

My dad was my role model; he always did the right thing.|Aaron Judge

My mother’s proud of where she’s from    and her history         and her past  and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like   I am from Africa as well as from Germany         and I am very proud of that.|Zendaya

I’m a dad        I’m a husband          I’m an activist          I’m a writer and I’m just a student of the world.|Michael J. Fox

Both my parents worked at the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company          with my dad eventually being hired by another company called Summit Laboratories that made chemical hair straighteners.|A’Lelia Bundles

When I was ten         I went to seven schools in one year in Nova Scotia. Me and my mum moved there so that I could be closer to my dad who is an ice-truck driver  but it didn’t work out.|Mia Goth

My dad was an auto mechanic       but we moved to Fort Worth         where he worked in defense            building B-24s.|Roy Orbison

I think I’d be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.|Taylor Kinney

My dad’s Irish           so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid      so it’s not totally foreign to me.|Katherine Ryan

My Dad was from Liverpool          and he picked it up in the army. He’d often come out with this stuff.|Mike Myers

I’ve never really turned to my dad for anything   I think out of fear of the label of nepotism.|Dan Levy

He described how    as a boy of 14           his dad had been down the mining pit      his uncle had been down the pit  his brother had been down the pit and of course he would go down the pit.|Barbara Castle

I grew up on a working farm. It was small           a hundred acres       but we had cows and pigs and chickens and sheep and a vegetable garden. I spent hours pulling weeds        hoeing           feeding the horses cleaning out the stalls. My dad was a tough taskmaster. I always worked      but we also had fun.|Henry Paulson

A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas          my dad was a tenacious autodidact          the first in his family to get a college degree.|Thomas Chatterton Williams

My dad is a very hardworking man.|Jubin Nautiyal

I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says   ‘Bring back the spikes            Dad.’|Eric Bana

I’ve traveled all over. I’ve been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy       I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12         and I had dog           monkey         lizard everything. Then I was in Hawaii and I’m spear-fishing      catching octopus with my hands.|Graham Elliot

My dad never told me that when he was serving in World War II he had gotten married at a young age.|Bruce Buffer

My dad was a great business guy   and he always taught us that his business acumen would put his workers’ kids through school          and their great artistry… would put my brothers and me through school.|Tim Kaine

That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.|Afeni Shakur

My brothers bullied me       so I cried a lot as a kid. It was the only defense I had. Telling them to stop wouldn’t work. The crying would bring my dad. Dad was my cavalry.|Steven Adams

Dad used to reminisce about the good old days when Everton won the old first division championship and the FA Cup back in the 1970s and 80s but they weren’t quite so good when I started supporting them.|Adam Lallana

I’ve got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says           all girls should! I’m from the South – Tennessee    to be exact – and down there          we’re all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy     he better be nice      and above all            my dad has to approve of him!|Miley Cyrus

Every once in a while          we’d ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And    he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.|Kalpana Chawla

My dad was a keen cricketer – he played at school and club level – but it was hard for him to find time for it because he was a farmer        so he encouraged me and my brother.|Jonathan Agnew

I liked that Garrett could be lighthearted and laugh about the future about being a dad and having the minivan.|Becca Kufrin

When I was 12          my feet were so small         I wore my sisters’ glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: ‘You’re not going to school now         you’ll embarrass us!’|Young Thug

I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad   Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on ‘Perrier’s Bounty.’ It was a small part but it was really special.|Domhnall Gleeson

I love Vegemite sandwiches           Milo   ham sandwiches      chicken breasts        and that’s all I used to eat. I wouldn’t eat anything else. So at home there was always two sets of dinner   one for Mum and Dad and one for me        because I was so fussy.|Adriano Zumbo

I appreciate the sacrifices my dad made. I went to a great public high school.|Aileen Lee

Mum came to Crawley from Sri Lanka at 19 after marrying my dad. Later    Dad had financial problems and they split for a while.|Romesh Ranganathan

My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He’s sort of who got me into rock music.|Dylan Minnette

When I was leaving Yemen to come to America things were tough. My dad had just been laid off            and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen  I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream         you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.|Barkhad Abdi

I grew up in Shropshire       but I was born in Wales. There was a hospital seven miles away        but my dad drove 45 miles over the Welsh border so I could play rugby for Wales. But as a skinny asthmatic            I was only ever good at swimming.|Greg Davies

My dad’s a very shrewd       clever guy.|C. Thomas Howell

I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan  weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.|Floyd Mayweather   Jr.

I’m going to be a dad in a couple of weeks and by the grace of God    He’s allowing me to see this moment and I can’t wait. I think about it every day. My fiance and I have pillow talk about it every day            all day. I rub her belly        I’m blessed and I can’t wait for my little princess to get here.|Jeff Green

My dad and my brother were more keen on football      but I used to play canvas-ball cricket while at school in Ranchi       and we would have cricket coaching camps in the summer vacations. That’s how I started.|MS Dhoni

I got a bad conduct discharge         was at home for a few months in late ’99 and basically said    ‘Dad    I want to give wrestling a shot. I sure as hell don’t wanna go to college         and the Marine Corps wasn’t for me. And I need to make some money  so let’s see if I can do it.’|Randy Orton

When I was a kid      I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong but it obviously worked.|David Beckham

I found out when I was 18 that Dad had left my mother and the family before he realised he was ill and then died. When I asked Mum about it     she just sort of shrugged it off and said she’d thought I knew about it all along. Of course I hadn’t         though I’m sure she must have been desperately unhappy at the time.|Martin Clunes

My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My dad was a no-nonsense guy. As a kid           I hated his rules       but as a man         I understand what he was teaching. He taught me you have to work hard for everything you get.|Nick Ferguson

My childhood memories are filled with hugs and kisses from both my mum and dad. My mum has a thing about kissing you an odd number of times: if she kisses you once         all good         but if she kisses you twice        then you know another one has to follow and     weirdly          she tends to go for the forehead.|Romesh Ranganathan

The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.|Paul Walker

I’ve always liked long hair. My dad’s always had long hair       but he always tells me         ‘I never had it in a ponytail.’ And I say to him   ‘You weren’t an England goalie either     were ya.’|David Seaman

My dad was a theater actor so he had an agent   and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe four years old. That was how I started. I started modeling        and it progressed from there.|Tinashe

My stepmom’s from Somalia          my baby sister is African American         my dad was always English           I’m a white man… You may have noticed.|Duncan Jones

I’m a dad and a husband      and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.|Pablo Schreiber

My dad got me the same mic I use on everything now – this $200 mic from Guitar Center.|Gnash

My career plan at this point is ‘Ice Age 5’ through ’10    ‘ and even ’12 ‘ and ‘Spider Man’ – you know            basically I’d be Emma Stone’s dad for the rest of my career. I really don’t have any problem doing that.|Denis Leary

Growing up with my mum  often I’d be the only person at home. She would spend a lot of time talking to me. She treated me almost like an adult; she used to get mildly rebuked by my dad and my grandad for that. But she gave me a degree of responsibility beyond my years; my own sense of agency and even my self-confidence     I get from her.|Wes Streeting

My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad    who was a headmaster       everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.|James Nesbitt

Parents don’t understand kids and kids don’t understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.|Mark Hoppus

I’m lucky to have my dad in my life. He’s very brilliant I think he’s really a smart man       and he’s a kind guy.|Cody Horn

My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug which was a division of General Motors and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.|Michael Moore

I look for strong people. I don’t like people who’ll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that’s reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to ‘The Standard.’|Anna Wintour

I didn’t decide to play guitar           but that was the instrument which I was offered. I’ve always been interested in horn-type instruments           such as a saxophone; but those instruments are very expensive      so my dad bought me a guitar instead. I didn’t like the guitar at first  but after noodling on it for several months       I developed a feel for it.|Allan Holdsworth

I’m sure there’s some awful video of me singing when I was    like    13 or 15 at my old school that my dad didn’t take down off YouTube.|Rex Orange County

Thank God I have parents who’d support the crazy things I did. If my dad found a snake   I’d take it to the woods. I was always taking these homeless birds and homeless cats home.|Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

At the end of the day           I’m very lucky to have what I have and do what I do     but I don’t see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband.|David Beckham

My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.|Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nothing had been attempted like that        to lift Dad’s voice    literally         off of that track and put it on a brand-new one and then line it up    match it up   get the phrasing right. I remember listening – everyone listening at the end          and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.|Natalie Cole

When I was little      my dad used to call me ‘Bandarella          ‘ because I was a mess – a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn’t really fit in.|Priyanka Chopra

My dad           bless him       was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.|Paul McCartney

When I was a freshman and sophomore   I got booed every time I was put in the game. Then      in my junior and senior years my dad got booed every time he took me out.|Steve Alford

My dad’s side of the family were calm folk from England         but the other side just loved to party. Somewhere between those two factions is me.|Devin Townsend

My dad is very environmentally conscious          and so I’ve always been close to nature.|Madelaine Petsch

When I was 14          in Cuba         I met Fidel Castro with my dad     and it was really impressive. And on a totally different level      I met Justin Timberlake!|Dylan Penn

All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don’t understand it.|John Mulaney

My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me.|Susan Strasberg

When I was 17          my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van     and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my sister and I were being horrible      sulky teenagers.|Greg Davies

My dad lives in Sicily          so I’m half Italian and half Irish – it’s a fiery combination.|Nico Mirallegro

I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college  so I grew up with the gear in my house – like the sticks      the helmet.|Tyler Posey

When I was a little girl        my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman            that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that’s what I came into the world thinking       that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there.|Pramila Jayapal

My dad is a big jazz fan      and that was the reason I first got into jazz.|Damien Chazelle

My father – until the day that my dad died – didn’t know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball but no intricacies of the sport.|Damon Lindelof

My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it’s a silver spoon. It’s not.|Michael Douglas

All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.|Zendaya

The first real concert           other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night  was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep           sexy   powerful alto voices.|Amy Lee

I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else’s country        and you were aware of your behaviour. And my mum worked for the NHS         so you were aware of your responsibility to your country.|Helen McCrory

My father was a person who always allowed me to do what I wanted but he told me you want to go to a stock market           first get yourself qualified. So       I qualified myself as a chartered accountant and my dad said what do you want to do? I said I want to go to the stock market. He asked what will you do? I said I invest.|Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

My uncle       my dad always made sure I had guard skills. But as far as defending everybody     that wasn’t really my mindset until my rookie year.|Draymond Green

I was a pitcher          and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf          I felt like the game can’t be perfected      and that motivated me.|Jordan Spieth

When I was a teenager        my dad used to call me ‘Hollywood’ because I wore sunglasses all the time            even at night. Cue song.|Michael Weatherly

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball   so playing baseball was something we always did.|Matthew Stafford

By high school         I was telling everyone        ‘Oh     I’m going to be a doctor when I grow up ‘ because my dad was always saying to me ‘Pick a career path where you’re always going to be necessary.’ But by junior year        I was president of choir      I was the lead in the school play   and I just loved being onstage performing.|Aja Naomi King

My dad’s a football coach   that’s what he does.|Jermaine Jenas

My humour is a mix of my parents’. I get the chatty       anecdotal stuff from my dad and the filth from my mam         Valerie. She has a very dark sense of humour    I think from having grown up with disabilities. It’s a coping mechanism. She had polio when she was eight and has been in a wheelchair for about 20 years.|Sarah Millican

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He’s a tough        tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight            and I didn’t speak to him for 10 years.|Larry Elder

My dad every now and then will toe that line and be like          You could try women!’ And I’m like Don’t. It’s almost an endearing kind of homophobia       if such a thing exists.|Bowen Yang

A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up         and I can still remember when he shaved it   he looked like a completely different person.|Jason Sudeikis

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma    who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.|Jennifer Ellison

My dad gave me this advice: ‘Make what you want to do for the rest of your life the first thing you do in the day and then worry about hanging out with friends.’|Connor McDavid

You can’t be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said  ‘No ice cream           ‘ buys the ice cream       and says        ‘Don’t tell your mother.’ You teach the child to lie – and to disrespect the other parent.|Howie Mandel

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there           but I’ve always been Chelsea.|Eric Bristow

I was born and raised in Southall; we had two houses which we made into one big one because there were 12 of us living there: me and my bro           my parents   my grandparents     and my dad’s brother’s family.|Jay Sean

Every celebrity in the world           if their movie bombs or whatever they hold their kid up on a magazine and say     ‘I’m really a dad.’|Dana Carvey

At the end of the day           my biggest fear in life is that I’m gonna wind up being an actor who plays the dad on a TV show like ‘Full House’ or ‘Small Wonder’ or something – I’m           like    the desexualized dad in the show ‘Alf.’|David Harbour

I love sleeping and to inculcate the habit of early rising my dad forced me to take up a sport. That was the only reason I started playing cricket in the first place. And thereafter it continued.|Mithali Raj

My dad made a film called ‘Willow’ when he was a young filmmaker which screened at the Cannes film festival   and people were booing afterwards.|Bryce Dallas Howard

I’ve always been a fan of Anderson’s. Back when he was in Meca       I met his dad and we talked. He always treated me very well.|Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

I love playing guitar. I grew up with my dad playing. But acting is definitely the forefront I guess I’d say      in terms of career and something that I really enjoy and feel lucky to be able to do.|Jesse Plemons

When I was on ‘The Real World    ‘ I moved back to Cleveland           and I had a choice: My dad was like     ‘You should stay in Cleveland and be the big name out here.’ I was like        ‘But no          Dad            I wanna be a WWE superstar.’|The Miz

Atticus Finch. That’s who I want to be when I grow up. He’s the greatest guy ever – a good dad    a good lawyer  doing the right thing. And he knows he’s not supposed to win but he’s doing it anyway.|Sean Patrick Maloney

I’m finally my dad’s favourite because Kevin Costner is playing him.|Molly Bloom

We travelled a lot     went on tour with my dad a lot. But there was never a moment when any of us didn’t feel loved        or taken care of.|Aimee Osbourne

My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes  because he would have to be away a lot  and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.|Nolan Gould

I lost my dad when I was younger and I know what it’s like to lose a beloved parent.|Simone Elkeles

The world’s most competitive man my dad. Wouldn’t let us win at Monopoly… he wouldn’t cut any slack for his children. My sister’s also very          very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.|Giles Coren

After the abrupt death of my mother         Jane   on Sept. 5      1991   of a disease called amyloidosis            my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis – a couples’ game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning Dad turned Job-like to golf            a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.|Steve Rushin

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents’ music  but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.|Dan Auerbach

My dad was a cross-country truck driver.|John Searles

Big Mike Meyer was my real dad as far as I was concerned.|Dakota Meyer

My dad was a labour lawyer           and the ideas that I grew up with – bad management     bad capitalism      robber barons – when I applied this to my own life        I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.|David Mamet

Dad used to accompany me to the sets. Soon       he realized there is nothing to worry about and now I am on my own.|Aishwarya Lekshmi

My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother’s family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba    so we got some of that. We were a poor family but I was always a happy kid.|William Levy

My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing            I feel  to offer this world.|Sasha Grey

I’m an actor   paid to act. I don’t bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.|Abhishek Bachchan

I bought a Jaguar when I was 28. I’d always wanted one. I had it for years    then my friend had it            then my dad had it. It was a good workhorse.|Sean Bean

I grew up with my dad. He was very eccentric. I had zero supervision in New York. It’s kind of like I was an orphan.|Julia Fox

My dad was not good at saying no. I’m trying to be better at saying no.|Joe Buck

I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.|Lauren Daigle

Instead of the Beatles and the Stones        my mum and dad were listening to Michael Jackson    Barry White.|Jonas Blue

I always say that even though my dad was alive during Woodstock    he was just not invited. He just seemed like he was from a different generation.|Adam F. Goldberg

My grandfather on my dad’s side was the first in our family to settle in the U.K. He came from Pakistan on his own in the ’60s and worked in a cotton mill in Bolton    earning enough to bring over the rest of his family. My dad   Shah  was only about eight when he came to this country. Like most immigrants            he has a fierce work ethic.|Amir Khan

From childhood        both my brother and I have had only one hero   and that’s our dad.|Akhil Akkineni

I grew up – my dad   every time I was with my dad       he was always – not always            but he wrote. He’s a writer. So he was always in his office writing. He made a plan and     like    a point of            ‘This is my work. I’m going to do this every day for these amount of hours.’ So I think that’s where I got    like    a work sort of ethic.|Ad-Rock

My dad leaving my life. That’s the biggest thing that happened to me. I just remember what he tells me            the memories           and try to move on forward each day       knowing that he’s still here looking down on me.|Kawhi Leonard

Two of my dramas   ‘Unforgotten’ and ‘River     ‘ were airing at the same time         and Dad had read about my ‘success’ in a newspaper – he thought it was brilliant. I was thinking          ‘Does this mean I’m going to be put in a box for a bit now?’|Nicola Walker

As early as I can remember I would put on plays with my cousin and make my dad record them. In kindergarten  I started doing the school plays     and it just continued.|Mikaela Hoover

I think my dad’s dream really was just to have a good family   treat them well         to keep them together          and he did everything in his power and it just fell apart on him.|Dean Potter

I always had a fetish for fighting big peoples. My dad put me in the ring with much bigger guys. In my first fight        I gave the guy a 14-pound advantage.|Roy Jones Jr.

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom     one-bath house in St. Louis Park           Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.|Al Franken

When I used to do musical theatre my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn’t want to see the magic.|Nia Vardalos

Most boys’ first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.|John C. Reilly

My dad was a real working musician in the late ’70s and early ’80s. He had a band that was signed to Elektra/Asylum and they would perform at like Madame Wong’s and Whiskey A Go Go all the time.|Weyes Blood

Everybody wanna be a super dad and the best dad ever but sometimes          I’m just realizing that I’m not perfect.|Future

As a family    we all loved the Flyers. To me      rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially.|Adam F. Goldberg

I was skint     and I had to move back to my mum and dad’s house     back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn’t mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.|Ian Brown

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer       too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life but to me       he was still a rock star.|Tracy Morgan

I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it’s really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff – Facebook          Twitter          e-mails          that kind of thing.|Jencarlos Canela

My dad saw it as a goal before I did          when I was 12 years old. I didn’t think competing in Olympics was possible until I was 16.|Bonnie Blair

My dad used to call me ‘the dreamer.’ He was right.|George Pelecanos

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence   which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old         not to dye my hair.|Rose Leslie

My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature        which to him included humankind to be so beautiful    so magnificent         that there had to be something behind it all.|Al Franken

There’s many many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.|Robert Kennedy     Jr.

Watching Eagles games with my dad        whether at the vet or in our house was a big part of my childhood.|Adam F. Goldberg

My dad loves it – being onstage – but I don’t.|Shaun Ryder

I didn’t have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.|Ville Valo

My dad served in the Australian Navy until I was a toddler.|Brianna Keilar

I would never complain about the position I’m in or the attention I get. At the end of the day         I’m very lucky to have what I have and do what I do but I don’t see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband.|David Beckham

When I was a kid      man    my dad used to buy me the Ted Williams glove at Sears with the Ted Williams shoes with the eight stripes on ’em. I used to play Little League      and I was Ted Williams-ed out.|Tony Gwynn

Rap is the only super-current music. If you’re into reggae or dancehall          and you don’t know Bob Marley           then you don’t really know what you’re listening to. But if you’re listening to rap    and you’re 15        you’re like     ‘Grandmaster Flash? Who’s that? Public Enemy? Yeah my dad told me about them once.’ And that’s just how it is.|Ad-Rock

In my experience on ‘New York Undercover       ‘ where I played a dad          I was 26 years old   and I didn’t have kids then. And at that time    it would blow me away that people said they became a better parent because of watching my role on that TV show.|Malik Yoba

Man    I love being a dad. It’s super fun.|Future

I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian         even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch ‘Evening at the Improv’ on A&E.|Adam DeVine

My dad was a terrible businessman.|Al Franken

My dad Chester was a pianist and later a well-known television entertainer so football was never really something that was on his radar. However when I was a young boy a family friend took me to see an Arsenal game and from that moment on I was totally and utterly hooked.|Ainsley Harriott

I was born in India   and we came from a poor family and lived in a rural village. My dad came over to Canada as a refugee         and years later         we were able to join him.|Rupi Kaur

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I’m acting. It’s always     ‘When I say you’ll be back at 11       that means 11           not 11.15. Do you hear me!?’ Then          ‘Yeah Dad.’|Liam Neeson

My dad taught me; Mr. Steven Seagal taught me            also.|Lyoto Machida

Mum and Dad used to do a lot of entertaining. We had quite a nice house     so everybody descended on us at Christmas – aunts and uncles       who weren’t even aunts and uncles.|Ainsley Harriott

When the Happy Mondays started I was like the dad of the band.|Shaun Ryder

I get up at six to work out. I’ve done it since school       it’s always been part of my life. It’s a good way to take the edge off. I like getting up early; I’ve got a daughter I’m a single dad.|Ray Liotta

Because of my dad   I started playing the game. Seeing him motivated me to play. He’s been an important part of my life.|Al Horford

Jeff Garlin is essentially my dad.|Adam F. Goldberg

I started off with sim driving          playing ‘Gran Turismo        ‘ and my Dad had some sort of Logitech steering wheel with pedals for the PlayStation 2.|Lando Norris

I’ve always loved video games. I played ‘Ms. Pac-man’ with my dad  and I Ioved ‘Galaga’ and ‘Tempest’ and grew up on the standing arcade games. Even to this day           my dad will call me if he’s playing ‘Ms. Pac-man’ and hold the phone up to the game.|Aisha Tyler

My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side     but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17    and I said      ‘I want to be an actor.’ They worried it was a waste of time.|Sean Bean

Hello  friends.’ I’ve had fun with that expression to satisfy the cynics but it comes from the heart and I don’t apologize for it. Like my dad – for whom I designed the expression during the 2002 PGA Championship          when he was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease – I’ve never met a stranger.|Jim Nantz

I found my childhood scrapbook and there’s an interview in there with dad from 1970. He talks about how long he’s been playing the drums and he’d only been playing drums six years in 1970.|Jason Bonham

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America       where I was born     he was posted to Cairo.|Arabella Weir

My dad           he is such a soft man. Even if he has these opinions about my boyfriends    he will be the sweetest guy. He will make you feel like you’re fascinating and awesome           even if he doesn’t like you that much.|Amanda Seyfried

I have been called many things in public life       but the cap that best fits is that of the centrist dad.|Andrew Adonis Baron Adonis

When I was growing up      my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones    places like Uganda or Rwanda.|Joe Alwyn

My dad taught me how to play tennis       and I owe that to him. But the better you get      the higher you climb       and the more lonely you get. I’ve had to sacrifice a lot of personal relationships      but that’s the choice I made.|Grigor Dimitrov

David and Dad didn’t get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along           but it was harder on David        because David wasn’t going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they’re like best friends.|Amy Sedaris

My dad was Dublin born and bred – a Dublin boy – but he always pushed me to play for what was Wales Under-15s in my day.|Chris Coleman

My mother had introduced me to a lot of my father’s friends because she believed that I would get to know the guy my dad was better through his friends than just in the hospital visits.|Arlo Guthrie

My dad used to hear me humming songs while watching television and discovered I have a nice sweet tone which should be further trained and toned.|Tulsi Kumar

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts  and the records around the house and sometimes we’d play together.|Vince Gill

Now I see other kids and their parents      and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn’t call it grounding; he’d just say    ‘You’re on punishment.’ Sometimes we’d be on punishment a lot.|Paris Jackson

I would say the dumbest thing I have heard is that my dad isn’t my real dad.|Khloe Kardashian

Within our culture    every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It’s a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy            basically.|Geoffrey Rush

When I was a kid      I worked as a clerk at my parent’s motel. From when I was eight or nine      I rented rooms helped with laundry folding tons of towels. And then I also worked at my dad’s gas station more as a young adult and as an adult.|Sabaa Tahir

It’s something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very   very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he’d say        ‘Oh     good stuff     isn’t it?’|Jennifer Grant

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it            every so often someone comes up and says           ‘You saved my dad’s life.’|Dick Cavett

My dad is a good dad.|Mindy McCready

I learned more from my dad by osmosis than by any talk we ever had. He was the most reliable person I’ve ever met.|Matt Lauer

My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.|Magic Johnson

My mum        Jennie Buckman      was a north London Jew who        with my dad proudly chose to raise me and my two brothers in Hackney.|Zoe Buckman

My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum       although I never judge him. If you did           you’d become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven’t got the time for it.|Martin Clunes

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.|Mireille Enos

I grew up surfing. My dad probably put me on a surfboard before I could walk.|Luke Bracey

My dad was a congressman and he taught me at a very early age         ‘They voted for me  they view me as theirs   and I am.’ Our family’s phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.|Harold Ford    Jr.

I want to be a dad     first and foremost. I want to be a good father. I’ve spent so much of my life on the move and travelling around the world that just to set up a home for my family and be a good dad is something that motivates me.|Ricky Ponting

You know      you learned that very young in American culture that the feminine boys don’t do well. And yet          I had a dad who was a lieutenant colonel in the army. My dad was a man’s man      but he still adored me. And somehow in the midst of that    I still grew up hating the sissy in me.|Leslie Jordan

Oh       the first dish I learned to make      I think I was about 10 years old    I made my dad spaghetti and broccoli for dinner when he got home from work    and it was     like    a surprise.|Jaleel White

My mum and dad always brought me up like that. You go to work     you do your best.|Phil Taylor

Nine per cent of my viewers are men        of which the majority is      I think           45 to 50. I like to tell myself it’s just my dad watching.|Zoe Sugg

I’m just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes        no matter what you do for a living.|Glenn Frey

Here’s what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing’s unbalanced           there’s no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school and his dad’s not dead and asks him if he’s had a good time it’s boring. But if something’s unbalanced            it must be returned to order.|David Mamet

We all have experiences in our lives that change us       and we all learn from people         like my dad            but at the end of the day     it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.|Tom Brady

There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.|Dan Reynolds

In fact my uncle did his first full play at the Westin Playhouse because my dad put in a good word for him to the producer.|Sam Lloyd

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied: to want more and know that what is done is done. That was his way of seeing the game. You’ve done it  now move on. People might say   ‘Well  when can you enjoy it?’ But it worked for me because        in the game   you need to be on your toes.|Thierry Henry

My sister plays piano           and my brother used to be on the drums. My dad sings; he’s got a good voice.|Joseph Parker

For the guys who would say           ‘oh      your dad        this and that  you’ve got to the league or here because of him’… they’re hypocrites.|Austin Rivers

My dad always made a big thing about having well-cut suits. It’s partly a cultural thing      but for him            looking sharp and presenting yourself well was very    very important.|Chuka Umunna

My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.|Sam Smith

When my dad died   I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet           and I was like him.|Crystal Gayle

My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on  no matter what the ramification    so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that.|Wendell Pierce

When I was really little       I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad  and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader           so I wanted to cheer.|Ashley Tisdale

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.|Suzanne Collins

‘Rainwater’ was particularly special because it was a complete departure from the suspense novels. It’s set in the Great Depression and based on an incident that occurred when my dad was a boy.|Sandra Brown

My dad was a high school and college coach      and in my house my dad muted sideline reporters because he wasn’t interested in what they had to say.|Samantha Ponder

I think it’s easiest to teach by example. My dad didn’t tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings – like a short fuse – but I’ve learned you can’t come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.|Chris O’Donnell

You realise that there’s nothing more endearing than people who are desperately trying to be liked or trying to be the hero you know? Who also probably just need a hug or want to impress their dad?|Taika Waititi

My dad is a big dreamer      so I got that from him. Golf was my main thing when I was a teenager            and that’s what I wanted to do.|Brandon Flowers

I said  ‘Ooh   Dad    I want the yellow ones.’ He said    ‘Where?’ I said         ‘Right there   Dad. I want the yellow ones.’ Everybody goes  ‘Those are green’. That’s how I knew I was colorblind.|Michael Rosenbaum

As a five-year-old kid         I used to sit in front of the TV – I never missed ‘Dukes of Hazzard     ‘ not once. It was me and my dad’s show.|Christian Kane

I’m trying to create a collection of stories – the ‘U.F.O.W.A.V.E.’ songs are all stories. I haven’t really taken direct lyrical influence from other songwriters     but my dad bought me a book of W.H. Auden’s poems when I was younger and the imagery really interested me.|King Krule

I had a tough year     losing my dad. And I really needed to have some quiet time    and not be engaged the way I normally would be with the Lakers.|Jeanie Buss

My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself         and he loved vocal harmony          stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops       which was a big influence on me.|Katy B

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes I am one of those dreaded P.K.s – Preacher’s Kids. Be afraid.|Libba Bray

There’d be days in high school where I thought I played well   my team got the win           and I’d go to the gym still in my uniform        and my dad would say        ‘C’mon           let’s go. We have more work to do.’|Jalen Brunson

When my dad visited me while I was doing a play in New York City two years ago            I took him to see ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert.’ Now I’m going to his house. It’s surreal.|Himesh Patel

The most important lesson my dad taught me was how to manage fear. Early on      he taught me that in a time of emergency        you’ve got to become deliberately calm.|Rudy Giuliani

My dad’s a Republican. My dad’s my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad’s Republican         so that’s what I decided to register as.|Patrick Murphy

I speak to my mum and dad about the club          and my uncle and all my mates are big Leeds fans as well. They’re on the up        if you like. It’s a better situation than it was when they were in League One not so long ago.|James Milner

My dad’s one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced     with a look of utter transfiguration on his face   that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.|Christopher Buckley

Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years. Later in life  when I got out of graduate school and imagined myself living the life of a writer like Hemingway or Kerouac           his practical self inevitably encouraged me to get a steady a job and raise a family          just like he did.|Amor Towles

As I have told many the only goal my dad had for me was to keep me alive to reach the age of reason! He had no aspirations for me vis-a-vis education           wealth           or anything else!|Dan Pena

I trained classically for 11 years and then studied musical theater at AMDA New York. My dad is a singer-songwriter     so I followed in his footsteps.|Madeline Brewer

My dad was a coalman and was always playing snooker with his mates.|Jimmy White

My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary  anything smooth. He’d listen to the quartets.|Keri Hilson

I was a single dad in New York City         raising a child and pursuing a career.|Mark Linn-Baker

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old            but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.|Helena Bonham Carter

My dad always pointed out Louis Armstrong’s pad when we passed by there. And me and my dad were both proud Louis Armstrong was from New Orleans.|Dr. John

In 1997          in Rich Dad  Poor Dad       I stated          ‘Your home is not an asset.’ Real estate agents sent me hate mail.|Robert Kiyosaki

One time        on Marine One         the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.|Dana Perino

I’ll say my dad couldn’t act to save his life and nor can my uncle         and they’ll say I’m the worst actor in the world.|Laurence Fox

In New York my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop   rock and country music. When I moved to Dallas        I started listening to whatever I wanted to listen to.|Post Malone

I’ve got uncles who wore garish stuff        you know      electric blue polyester suits           and they carried it off. But my dad never went down that path     he has never been into loud stuff. His style was fashionable   but never sharp.|Clive Lewis

My dad was a very unconventional Asian American man. He was very much not quiet      not shy            not passive. If he had to fart          he’d do it in the library. He did not care. He was like    ‘I don’t know these people. I’m uncomfortable       and I need to let it go.’|Ali Wong

I picked Dad’s guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play    so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.|Dustin Lynch

So many use dad’s name      saying ‘Johnny Cash would not like this’ or ‘Johnny Cash would do this’ or ‘Johnny Cash would vote for… ‘ Please     let his actions speak for who he was: A simple  loving man who never supported hate or bigotry. He was non-political      and a patriot with no public political party affiliation.|John Carter Cash

I think Sam Smith’s dad got a huge loan or something to help his career. Those things can help artists get attention  but I guess my song ‘Say You Won’t Let Go’ proved it’s about the song.|James Arthur

As a brother and sister         our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn’t understand it and would try to talk him out of it.|Taryn Manning

People’s behavior is not always changed based on a loss. I remember my dad or my uncle used to say            ‘If that guy’s picking on you          punch him once in the face and he’ll never come back again.’ I don’t know how true that is.|Ralph Macchio

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin’ kidney! But it’s also the families that you create outside of your family.|Sarah Hyland

I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield about 30 feet in the air. And we’d vacation on an island in Michigan        where I hunted a deer that we ate.|Gabriel Basso

I don’t know that I’ve ever looked at baseball like a purely casual fan. That’s just realistic when you grow up with it putting food on your table           and with it taking your dad out of town.|Joe Buck

My grandmother would sing in the choir  while my dad – while he was in college – sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah        it was definitely my dad’s Southern side that impacted on me musically.|Keri Hilson

My dad was a proper old English gentleman       even though he was from the Caribbean. He used to stand up and salute during the Queen’s Christmas speech.|John Barnes

Steph’s such a good dad for girls. He’s super attentive   and he’s         like    not too manly to get down on the floor and play with them and have a tea party.|Ayesha Curry

I’m not going to retire until I win the NWA World Heavyweight Title            the same belt my dad had. I’m going to win that title before I hang it up.|Goldust

My mum and dad are quite hippyish         so I’m pretty naive. I take everyone at face value.|Noel Fielding

I’d always also been interested in being in the army because my dad was in the army and my brother is an officer in the army.|Phil Dunster

I happily went on holiday with my parents until I was 18          because we always had such a good time that I didn’t want to venture off and do my own thing. I have very fond memories of those holidays with my brother        mum  and dad.|Penny Lancaster

But as a kid   I loved ‘Monty Python.’ My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!|Wes Bentley

We are a rugby family really. My dad and both granddads played rugby. Dad was good     on his way to Bath until he broke his leg. My brother Harry got an invitation to go and play for Bristol. I go and watch Sale Sharks and have been to Twickenham a few times.|Jack Butland