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| Beau Bridges | My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.  | 101 |
| Dawn French | 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. | 101 |
| Frank A. Clark | A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. | 101 |
| Gareth Bale | My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life. | 101 |
| Gwyneth Paltrow | My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem. | 101 |
| Hugh Jackman | When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away. | 101 |
| Ian McLagan | My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years. | 101 |
| Liam Neeson | It's an ongoing joy being a dad. | 101 |
| Lily Collins | My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices. | 101 |
| Luke Bryan | Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household. | 101 |
| Margaret Turnbull | No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair. | 101 |
| Max Lucado | I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun. | 101 |
| Mitt Romney | Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose. | 101 |
| Nick Clegg | My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that. | 101 |
| Owen Benjamin | I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since. | 101 |
| Roger Federer | My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels. | 101 |
| Tim Allen | Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom. | 101 |
| Victoria Gotti | I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed? | 101 |
| Art Alexakis | Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded. | 101 |
| Bat for Lashes | I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe. | 101 |
| Bill Belichick | I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn't get the films until Monday. Sunday air shipping from wherever the college team was located - Starkville, Mississippi, or wherever the film was coming from. It took two days. | 101 |
| Bradley Steven Perry | I think the most fun part about working on 'Good Luck Charlie' is spending time with everyone, honestly, because everybody on set is like my brother and sister and mom and dad. They're so fun to be around, so that's probably the best part about working there. | 101 |
| Bubba Watson | My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven. | 101 |
| Chad Smith | I'm being a dad and a good husband. | 101 |
| Cheryl Ladd | My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick. | 101 |
| Craig Thompson | My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant. | 101 |
| David Oyelowo | My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA. | 101 |
| Emily Mortimer | My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends. | 101 |
| Frank Butler | 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. | 101 |
| Gina Rodriguez | Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat, 'Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.' | 101 |
| Grace Poe | My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher. | 101 |
| Inara George | I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock. | 101 |
| Kevin Connolly | 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. | 101 |
| Lou Doillon | I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home. | 101 |
| Nolan Sotillo | I always liked performing in front of my parents' friends. My dad bought me a karaoke machine, and I would put on a Michael Jackson song like 'Thriller,' and I would come out with, like, a hat and a jacket, and, like, moonwalk in my socks, so I was always performing. | 101 |
| Seann William Scott | My role model is my dad. | 101 |
| Shailene Woodley | There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad. | 101 |
| Troian Bellisario | I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what happened on TV shows because of my dad, and I didn't want to open myself up to that. But 'Pretty Little Liars' had a very early audition, and my agents encouraged me to go even though I didn't think it would be my thing. | 101 |
| Amy Heckerling | Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. | 101 |
| Andrew Luck | I was always impressed by how much my dad went out in the yard and played with me and my siblings when we were kids. I'm sure he was tired coming back from work, since he traveled a lot. But he always took time out of his day to go out in the yard. | 101 |
| Danny Dyer | I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that I'm making excuses. I was always out and about and had a good time as a kid, so I've done alright. | 101 |
| DeForest Kelley | The most important influence in my childhood was my father. | 101 |
| Erik Hassle | The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of Stockholm, and my mom was very active with directing theater. So I basically grew up at the theater on the floors of the shows, so I was really surrounded with music at a young age. | 101 |
| Gary Kemp | We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star. | 101 |
| Jim DeMint | One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad. | 101 |
| John Mackey | I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working. | 101 |
| Katharine Isabelle | I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business. | 101 |
| Keegan-Michael Key | When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work. | 101 |
| Ray Romano | If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now. | 101 |
| Teddy Thompson | I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didn't spend that much time with him. And I used to put headphones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and I found that quite... bonding with him, in a weird way. | 101 |
| Bellamy Young | My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true. | 101 |
| Connie Britton | For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done! | 101 |
| David Lauren | My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine. | 101 |
| Eric Swalwell | I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country. | 101 |
| Gabriel Basso | 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. | 101 |
| Godfrey Gao | I like a lot of food. I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys. Vancouver has a lot of variety, with pizza, hot dogs, Italian, Indian, seafood - a great combination of culture. | 101 |
| Henry Czerny | My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews. | 101 |
| Jennifer Grant | The best word to describe my father? Thoughtful. There was a tender quality to Dad that his sense of fun could sometimes mask. But, above all, he was sensitive and looked out for those he loved. | 101 |
| Josh Hartnett | My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself. | 101 |
| Kevin Williamson | I'm so lucky that 'The Vampire Diaries' happened. I'm so lucky that Warner Bros. pays me money. You have no idea. I should be on a fishing boat with my dad. | 101 |
| Michael Reagan | Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill. | 101 |
| Michael Weatherly | When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song. | 101 |
| Mike Krieger | My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies. | 101 |
| Mira Sorvino | My father taught me how to substitute realities. | 101 |
| Phil Niekro | My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball. | 101 |
| Sam Brownback | My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer. | 101 |
| Tom Bosley | Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business. | 101 |
| Tracy Austin | My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year. | 101 |
| Aaron Johnson | I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world. | 101 |
| Brea Grant | I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun. | 101 |
| Brian Herbert | My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond. | 101 |
| Catherine Hicks | Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know. | 101 |
| Chris DeWolfe | When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations. | 101 |
| Clyde Edgerton | 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. | 101 |
| Damon Wayans | My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone. | 101 |
| David Lambert | I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid. | 101 |
| Desmond Dekker | One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called 'Stardust Melody.' It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood. | 101 |
| Eric West | I was homeless for about 8 months, I refused to live with my dad or anyone for that matter. So I stayed somewhere that had no hot water, ever, no heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own. | 101 |
| Jenna Bush | I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions. | 101 |
| Laird Barron | Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library. | 101 |
| Ricky Ponting | 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. | 101 |
| Stephanie Szostak | My dad's American, and my mom's French. I lived in France for the first 18 years of my life, then came here to go to school at the College of William and Mary. I studied marketing. I really didn't know what I wanted to do, so I thought that's what I should do - study business - because it would give me the best chance to find work. | 101 |
| Adrien Brody | My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years. | 101 |
| Ariel Winter | My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.' | 101 |
| Carlos Pena, Jr. | Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.' | 101 |
| Chip Esten | When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too. | 101 |
| Cody Horn | 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. | 101 |
| Daisy Donovan | My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.' | 101 |
| Don Everly | Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home. | 101 |
| Mia Love | Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school. | 101 |
| Roman Romanenko | Whenever we went on a trip, picnic, or business trip, I was always with my dad, and I would just always be in contact with cosmonauts, and I thought it would be always normal to be with them. | 101 |
| Slim Whitman | I'd like my son to remember me as a good dad. | 101 |
| Sunil Yapa | I remember so clearly from when I was five years old, my mom and dad arguing over - not over whether it was better, but whether it was proper or whether it was correct to eat with a fork or to eat with your hands, like we do in Sri Lanka. Proper. Like, what is the correct way to eat? | 101 |
| Todd Burpo | As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read. | 101 |
| August Strindberg | That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. | 101 |
| Cassidy Gifford | Philippians 4:13 has never rung so true... You were an unparalleled Giant in all sense of the word, Dad. So keep doin' you up there, because no one does it better, and no one ever will. | 101 |
| Dee Bradley Baker | I am a geek dad, believe me. I've got my iPad with me; I've got my iPhone 4; I've got my Xbox. I love technology and I want to feel like I'm living in the future, and these devices help me feel that way. | 101 |
| Dorothy Atkinson | Dad was a passionate sailor, and he taught me. | 101 |
| John Lithgow | I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. | 101 |
| Mark Strong | My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly. | 101 |
| Ryan McPartlin | I'm a huge fan of John Hughes and can say that 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' is easily a top 3 favorite. I'm also a huge fan of all the Second City talent, and I think my Dad and Bill Murray are long lost twins. | 101 |
| S. Robson Walton | I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things. | 101 |
| Al Unser | Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows. | 101 |
| Allan Ray | My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their hard work and unselfish dedication to their family, were my mom, Catherine, and my dad, William. | 101 |
| Amber Cope | I think our dad and our mom have always told us that in racing we're a team, and we work together, and that's how it's always been, and I think that's how it's always going to be. | 101 |
| Cyrus S. Poonawalla | As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips. I realized that becoming a bookmaker would be very lucrative, but Dad put his foot down, saying it was an inappropriate career. | 101 |
| Miguel Indurain | 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. | 101 |
| Sam Barry | 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. | 101 |
| A. J. Foyt | My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong. | 101 |
| Jason Gann | My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier. | 101 |
| Jonny Lang | My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen. | 101 |
| Martin Bouygues | When I was young, I didn't like going to school, but I loved my dad. He was my professor. | 101 |
| Matt Prokop | My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke. | 101 |
| Joe Piscopo | I'm a dedicated father - a hopeless, dedicated father. I mean, I am dork dad. I am just - I love my children. I have kids - you know, Joey's 30-something, and then I have all the way down to 4 years old, believe it or not. At my age, five kids. | 101 |
| Mitch Pileggi | My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor. | 101 |
| Joel Courtney | In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble. | 101 |
| James Packer | Some of the happiest times I ever saw my dad was times when I was with him in the casinos, and he had a good night. | 101 |
| Julie Salamon | My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born. | 101 |
| Jennie Finch | 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. | 102 |
| Adam Sandler | 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. | 102 |
| Dick Clark | Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? | 102 |
| Emilia Clarke | My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible. | 102 |
| Eric Trump | Out of all my friends, I believe I'm the only kid whose dad made us work to cut rebars; we laid bricks in construction sites and did other real work every summer for minimum wage. Our dad said that it's important in the future that when we tell people to dig a hole, that you personally know how long it will take to dig that hole. | 102 |
| Halle Berry | 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. | 102 |
| Ian McLagan | I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers. | 102 |
| Irene Rosenfeld | Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard. | 102 |
| Jeff Foxworthy | I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did. | 102 |
| Leona Lewis | My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first. | 102 |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | 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. | 102 |
| Nikki Sixx | I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser. | 102 |
| Tabatha Coffey | Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius. | 102 |
| Thierry Henry | It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn't have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough. | 102 |
| Tim Vine | Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin. | 102 |
| Abhishek Bachchan | I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that. | 102 |
| Cheryl Cole | I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad so we've met a few times. I think he's amazing. And I think you can relate to him because he's made mistakes. He's cool. | 102 |
| Corbin Bernsen | My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call. | 102 |
| Dan Stevens | My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us. | 102 |
| Eric Church | I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me. | 102 |
| Faith Prince | I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles. | 102 |
| Greg Louganis | Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship. | 102 |
| Jerry Reinsdorf | I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn't going to be a doctor, but I couldn't stand to see the sight of blood. And I wanted to be a lawyer since I was in seventh or eighth grade. | 102 |
| Kevin Eubanks | I am blessed to have Mom and Dad. | 102 |
| Luke Benward | My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.' | 102 |
| Patrick J. Adams | My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me. | 102 |
| Pierre Omidyar | My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds at the hospital and talk to patients. We'd spend time in the car talking about what was going on with them, their stories. | 102 |
| Rick Smolan | My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings. | 102 |
| Suzi Quatro | 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. | 102 |
| Tamsin Egerton | My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman. | 102 |
| Tim Heidecker | My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical. | 102 |
| Timothy Simons | My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's a bluegrass musician. It's always been a part of the family. | 102 |
| Wade Boggs | Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. | 102 |
| Avicii | My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music. | 102 |
| Daniel Breaker | Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well. | 102 |
| David Burtka | I always thought that family was the most important thing in life, and no matter what I do, whether being a chef or an actor or a dancer, being a dad is what I do best. | 102 |
| Dick Gephardt | I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education. | 102 |
| Eric Bristow | My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea. | 102 |
| Eric Shanteau | Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics. | 102 |
| Hannah Kent | My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories. | 102 |
| Jordan Spieth | To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop. | 102 |
| Lara St. John | Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him. | 102 |
| Luke Pasqualino | 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. | 102 |
| Rich Lowry | When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks. | 102 |
| Samantha Shannon | I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered. | 102 |
| Taryn Manning | 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. | 102 |
| Topher Grace | The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad. | 102 |
| Alysia Reiner | From the moment my dad died, from the moment I found out there was the possibility of his dying, there were many surprises - years after, minutes after. The moments I was okay were as surprising as the ones that I wasn't. Making it through the eulogy without losing it. And then the guilt I felt about it. Surprise! | 102 |
| Brian Kilmeade | My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad. | 102 |
| Brooklyn Decker | I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure. | 102 |
| David Archuleta | My mom is just someone who's easy to talk to and hang with. My sister, it's always cool to be able to help her out with things. My brother is fun when we're just joking and messing around. And my dad is someone who's helpful with my music and easy to talk to about that stuff because he understands me in that sense. | 102 |
| Enid Bagnold | A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. | 102 |
| Jennifer Grant | Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the turquoise belt buckle. But it was all very simple, and that classic look is very 'Ralph Lauren.' | 102 |
| Ken Kercheval | My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor. | 102 |
| Marc Davis | My father was something of a rainbow-chaser. | 102 |
| Michael Trucco | I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge. | 102 |
| Scott Adkins | I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to be a martial arts movie star.' She didn't believe me, and neither did my dad. They both thought I would grow out of it. That it was a phase. I decided then I was going to do it or die trying. | 102 |
| Anthony Quinn | Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them. | 102 |
| Ben Roethlisberger | 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. | 102 |
| Bob Diamond | I recall my dad saying about me once that the only time he'd ever heard me say 'never' was when I was asked if I'd had enough. | 102 |
| Booboo Stewart | My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong. | 102 |
| Crystal Gayle | When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him. | 102 |
| Dennis Wilson | The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music. | 102 |
| Dinah Shore | 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.' | 102 |
| Eamonn Walker | I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!' | 102 |
| John Boyega | My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative. | 102 |
| Phil Crane | 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. | 102 |
| Rafe Spall | My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings. | 102 |
| Riteish Deshmukh | Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I'm just a politician's son, not a politician myself. Two politicians, that's my dad and elder brother, in the family are enough. I'm happy doing my own stuff in Bollywood. | 102 |
| Simon Bird | I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop their own little habits. They have a certain way that they like to live their life, and nothing is going to interrupt that. | 102 |
| Steve Zahn | I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids. | 102 |
| Alyson Stoner | I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related. | 102 |
| Andrew Buchan | I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I have very fond memories of getting chips from his favourite chippy and heading down to the beach to eat Baskin Robbins ice cream. | 102 |
| Ann Turner | The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times. | 102 |
| B. Wayne Hughes | Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was. | 102 |
| Chumlee | My dad died from pancreatic cancer at 54... I'm making sure I'm eating my vegetables and staying away from the red meat. | 102 |
| James Vincent McMorrow | My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we were kids. And my dad, he would claim to be a singer... You know, he loves singing, and he used to sing a lot when he was a kid and at parties and stuff like that. So I come from a very party-musical family. | 102 |
| January Jones | I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12. | 102 |
| Jason Sudeikis | 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. | 102 |
| Jess Glynne | My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when my friend was at university there. I've always found it a friendly place and has a good night life. | 102 |
| Mark Teixeira | My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family. | 102 |
| Merry Clayton | My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning. | 102 |
| Robert Stromberg | My father was a low-budget monster movie maker, so he made classics like 'The Crater Lake Monster.' There were always creatures around. And my dad was a huge fan of Ray Harryhausen. One of our neighbors, who went on to win several Academy Awards, was close friends with my dad. His name is Phil Tippett. | 102 |
| Ronnie O'Sullivan | 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. | 102 |
| Sofia Boutella | When I give my jewelry as a present, I feel like I'm giving protection to someone I care about... I've given pieces to my mom, my aunts, my friends. I've even made bracelets for my dad and my uncle. | 102 |
| Steve Wilkos | I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet and a Chicago cop for 30 years, told me, 'You better pick up a brick and hit him in the head.' That's when I thought, 'Wow, I'm going to have to start dealing with things in a different way.' | 102 |
| Aaron Ruell | My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. | 102 |
| Chad Channing | My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it. | 102 |
| Melissa Ordway | Listen to your mom and dad! They are almost always right, especially about boys. | 102 |
| Jim Pattison | My dad made a huge impact on me in terms of right and wrong. | 102 |
| Joe Lando | My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy. | 102 |
| John Searles | My dad was a cross-country truck driver. | 102 |
| Mark Viduka | I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good. | 102 |
| Robert Bly | When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. | 102 |
| Andy Andrews | When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast. | 102 |
| Jon Hamm | 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. | 102 |
| Matt Lauria | My dad has this beautiful spirit of being able to create no matter where he is. He's always been so selfless with our family. It's hard to put words to it. He's an incredible man. | 102 |
| Josh Charles | 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.' | 102 |
| Mindy Sterling | I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver. | 102 |
| Jaden Smith | 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. | 102 |
| Jonathan Toews | My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I remember the first game I got to see him play against the Jets. The Kings beat the Jets, and I was happy that they did. Gretzky left the game after the first period, and I was upset about that. | 102 |
| Drake | Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along. | 103 |
| Steven Spielberg | My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky. | 103 |
| Buffalo Bill | But the love of adventure was in father's blood. | 103 |
| Hilary Duff | I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that. | 103 |
| Imogen Heap | Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened. | 103 |
| Katee Sackhoff | My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough. | 103 |
| Kent Nerburn | It is much easier to become a father than to be one. | 103 |
| Kiefer Sutherland | I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know? | 103 |
| Larry the Cable Guy | I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic. | 103 |
| Lenny Kravitz | A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad. | 103 |
| Liv Tyler | 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. | 103 |
| Oliver North | All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service. | 103 |
| Prince Charles | Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes. | 103 |
| Tom Hardy | I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day. | 103 |
| Tyler, The Creator | 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. | 103 |
| Wesley Snipes | I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material! | 103 |
| Will Ferrell | My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that. | 103 |
| William Hurt | Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. | 103 |
| Zach Braff | As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London. | 103 |
| Christopher Meloni | The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world. | 103 |
| Georgia Jagger | When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!' | 103 |
| Georgia May Jagger | My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose my jobs carefully so I wouldn't have to take too much time off. It got harder toward the end with my A-levels; there were sleepless nights, and I was doing my homework on the plane coming home, but I pulled through. | 103 |
| Keri Hilson | 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. | 103 |
| Lyle Lovett | 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. | 103 |
| Patrick Swayze | I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad. | 103 |
| Tatiana Maslany | My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully. | 103 |
| Bill Paxton | It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth. | 103 |
| Cameron Mathison | Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive. | 103 |
| Cat Cora | My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free. | 103 |
| Charley Pride | I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. | 103 |
| Emily VanCamp | I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not. | 103 |
| Jake Owen | I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs. | 103 |
| John Barrasso | My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country. | 103 |
| Lance Loud | For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends. | 103 |
| Nick Cassavetes | My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that. | 103 |
| Sally Hawkins | Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad. | 103 |
| Arlo Guthrie | 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. | 103 |
| Barry Marshall | Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood. | 103 |
| Brian J. White | I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad. | 103 |
| Broderick Crawford | My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother. | 103 |
| Charlie Kimball | I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working. | 103 |
| Debby Boone | I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't. | 103 |
| Dominic West | I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground. | 103 |
| Erica Cerra | When I grew up, my dad always used to watch 'Star Trek' and any and every sci-fi show you could imagine. I used to watch it with him, and I loved it. | 103 |
| Gloria Gaither | Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little. | 103 |
| James Belushi | I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management. | 103 |
| Jennifer Grant | When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit. | 103 |
| Joan Cusack | 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. | 103 |
| John W. Thompson | I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid. | 103 |
| Lou Brock | 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. | 103 |
| Michael Heizer | 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. | 103 |
| Michael Reagan | Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted. | 103 |
| Sofia Coppola | A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor. | 103 |
| Aravind Adiga | Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad. | 103 |
| Ashley Monroe | When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me. | 103 |
| Brendan Fehr | When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing', that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things. | 103 |
| Cher Lloyd | My dad's my best mate, and he always will be. | 103 |
| Rafe Spall | My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop. | 103 |
| Trevor Horn | When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad. | 103 |
| Dichen Lachman | As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study. | 103 |
| Dylan Walsh | Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse. | 103 |
| Jessica Pare | I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them. | 103 |
| Mark Teixeira | My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad. | 103 |
| Jakob Dylan | If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other people exclusively. I'm very protective of that. And telling people whether he was affectionate is telling people a lot. It has so little to do with me. I come up against a wall. | 103 |
| Michael Rosenbaum | 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. | 103 |
| Anna Lee | My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer. | 103 |
| Maddie Hasson | I love being around my mom and my dad. | 103 |
| Miranda Leek | My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery. | 103 |
| Jack Bruce | We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage. | 103 |
| Jerry Doyle | When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target. | 103 |
| Joe Wright | I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad. | 103 |
| John Eisenhower | You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war. | 103 |
| Angela Carter | 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. | 104 |
| Behati Prinsloo | I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. | 104 |
| Barry White | 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. | 104 |
| Bernie Siegel | I was called a 'CD' by a suicidal teenager, who is alive today because I became her 'Chosen Dad,' who loved her. We all have the potential to re-parent ourselves and others. | 104 |
| Bill Nighy | My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious. | 104 |
| Chief Joseph | 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. | 104 |
| Felicia Day | My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions. | 104 |
| Frank Bruno | Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt. | 104 |
| Gloria Swanson | As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. | 104 |
| Helena Bonham Carter | 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. | 104 |
| Ian McShane | My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable. | 104 |
| Imogen Poots | My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin. | 104 |
| Luke Bryan | From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance. | 104 |
| Mike Rowe | My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it. | 104 |
| Oliver Hudson | Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything. | 104 |
| Paul Theroux | When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it. | 104 |
| Questlove | According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life. | 104 |
| Terence | What harsh judges fathers are to all young men! | 104 |
| Tommy Franks | The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important. | 104 |
| Vanessa Kerry | It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories. | 104 |
| Venus Williams | It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine. | 104 |
| Vicky McClure | Oh, I love Nottingham. I know some people go, 'Oh God, there's not much going off there,' but I like staying in and going round to my mum and dad's for a Sunday roast. | 104 |
| Vince Gill | The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing. | 104 |
| Willie Geist | My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink. | 104 |
| Zadie Smith | My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world. | 104 |
| Zosia Mamet | My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out. | 104 |
| Chris O'Donnell | 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. | 104 |
| Eva Longoria | I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed. | 104 |
| Jay Leno | Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day. | 104 |
| Josh Dun | 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.' | 104 |
| Karan Johar | My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan. | 104 |
| Laura Mvula | I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.' | 104 |
| Michael Fassbender | I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself. | 104 |
| Pat Summitt | When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.' | 104 |
| Paul Reiser | And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently. | 104 |
| Roma Downey | My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer. | 104 |
| Trisha Yearwood | I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps. | 104 |
| Ace Frehley | I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth. | 104 |
| Artie Lange | As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did. | 104 |
| Christopher Eccleston | Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming. | 104 |
| Deborra-Lee Furness | My kids don't slow down, but they like to hang just with us, with mum and dad. They play with us and we play, too. | 104 |
| Dylan McDermott | My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority. | 104 |
| Jordan Spieth | 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. | 104 |
| Julian Lennon | Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the most to him: his wife and son. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces - no communication, adultery, divorce? You can't do it, not if you're being true and honest with yourself. | 104 |
| Kevin Love | My dad put up a great hoop in our front yard in our driveway. I was in Oregon, so I had to be out there in the rain. We didn't always have a gym to go to. | 104 |
| Laura Bell Bundy | My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal. | 104 |
| Peter L. Bergen | The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote. | 104 |
| Ryan Eggold | I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world. | 104 |
| Candace Parker | From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit. | 104 |
| Carl Hagelin | I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years. | 104 |
| Keith Thibodeaux | Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other. | 104 |
| Lacey Chabert | My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop. | 104 |
| Lydia Ko | Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach. | 104 |
| Melanie Fiona | My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins. | 104 |
| Michael Reagan | You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son. | 104 |
| Monica Seles | I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day. | 104 |
| Aaron Levie | My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently. | 104 |
| Chazz Palminteri | My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were. | 104 |
| Clyde Edgerton | As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories. | 104 |
| Selenis Leyva | In my household, everything happens in the kitchen. My parents have this pretty big home, and it doesn't matter how big it is, we will all squeeze ourselves in the kitchen and just chat while my mom or dad cooks. | 104 |
| Stuart Appleby | If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself. | 104 |
| China Anne McClain | One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!' | 104 |
| Junior Seau | I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back. | 104 |
| Alexandra Kosteniuk | My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments. | 104 |
| Jim Thome | My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression. | 104 |
| Beth Brooke | My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by that was, 'Don't just be successful. Don't just use your talents for your own success. But make a difference with them. Do something significant.' And when I put those two things together, it just causes me to not accept the status quo. | 105 |
| Charles Schwab | You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your dad, not your friend. You have to take it if you feel it instinctively. | 105 |
| Dane Cook | My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now. | 105 |
| Dick Cavett | All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.' | 105 |
| George Best | The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir. | 105 |
| Howie Mandel | 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. | 105 |
| Jim Gaffigan | As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights. | 105 |
| Oliver Hudson | Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things. | 105 |
| Robbie Williams | My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in. | 105 |
| Tony Dungy | But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives. | 105 |
| Zoe Kravitz | When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to. | 105 |
| Zoe Sugg | 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. | 105 |
| Bam Margera | I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today. | 105 |
| Dan Hill | My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them. | 105 |
| Deborah Mailman | Dad passed away in 2000, but he visits me all the time. He comes to me in different ways. So I have that connection with him, and that comforts me, to know that in time I can come back and still have that with my kids. It's not unfamiliar to me, that connection with the afterlife. I know it's real; I experience it all the time. | 105 |
| Harmon Killebrew | My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' | 105 |
| John Denver | At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough. | 105 |
| Keith Urban | The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Galveston.' Even as a kid, I knew these songs were glorious. My dad also had records by Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, and then there was also the Eagles and Don Henley. Anything Texas, which includes Don Henley, was big. | 105 |
| Kimberley Nixon | I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite good grades, so people assumed I would go and do a 'normal' job. My dad took me to my first audition for drama school and picked me up without anyone knowing, really. | 105 |
| Mac DeMarco | One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock! | 105 |
| Mark Gatiss | My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence. | 105 |
| Nick Park | When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living. | 105 |
| Raf Simons | My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes. | 105 |
| Rainn Wilson | My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet. | 105 |
| Rodney Atkins | I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love. | 105 |
| Warwick Davis | When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession. | 105 |
| Bonnie Bassler | I called up and said, 'Dad, I won a MacArthur.' My father goes: 'I always thought your sister would win that,' and I said, 'Dad, just say congratulations and keep your private thoughts private.' At that point he laughed, then burst into tears, and it was obvious that he was so happy and proud. | 105 |
| Dolores Huerta | My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant. | 105 |
| Gordon Strachan | I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live. | 105 |
| Jeffrey R. Immelt | I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that. | 105 |
| John Mackey | My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark. | 105 |
| Julian Lennon | He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around. | 105 |
| Marcy Kaptur | We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business. | 105 |
| Robert Herjavec | When I sold my first business, I wanted to do something nice for my dad. I wanted to give my parents a bunch of money, but they wouldn't take anything from me. They were so happy for me; they felt they didn't need money. | 105 |
| Skeet Ulrich | I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that. | 105 |
| Sonakshi Sinha | My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true, they felt that way. As for my dad, I could not do anything wrong. So, if I did something wrong, I would put the blame on them, and he would shout at them. | 105 |
| Tatum O'Neal | Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me. | 105 |
| Thomas Sangster | 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. | 105 |
| Candace Parker | On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality. | 105 |
| David Cone | I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something. | 105 |
| Herbert Kaufman | Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers. | 105 |
| James Levine | More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad. | 105 |
| Jennifer Grant | The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.' | 105 |
| Michael Steger | Even when I was doing well in acting, my dad would say, 'You can still go back to dental school.' But since I've been on '90210,' I haven't heard that. | 105 |
| Rob James-Collier | My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance. | 105 |
| Romeo Miller | My dad started his business, No Limit, for himself. | 105 |
| Robbie Coltrane | My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you? | 105 |
| Doug Davidson | I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough. | 105 |
| Ashley Bell | My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge, larger-than-life monsters and characters to life. And, also, you have to learn accents. | 105 |
| Raymond Floyd | As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie. | 105 |
| James Ellroy | As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years. | 105 |
| Jeremy Northam | My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really. | 105 |
| John Leguizamo | Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful. | 105 |
| Jennie Finch | Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me. | 106 |
| Phil McGraw | My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did. | 106 |
| Edward Kennedy | Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. | 106 |
| Isabelle Huppert | My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. | 106 |
| Jeff Foxworthy | 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. | 106 |
| Katherine Jenkins | If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation. | 106 |
| Nick Cannon | 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. | 106 |
| Nicole Richie | I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did. | 106 |
| Oliver North | The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind. | 106 |
| Pope John XXIII | It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. | 106 |
| Ralph Nader | I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' | 106 |
| Robert Mapplethorpe | I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. | 106 |
| Rod Stewart | I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband. | 106 |
| Shaun White | 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. | 106 |
| Thierry Henry | My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done. | 106 |
| Trevor Noah | My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid... a practical maid. No fantasies. | 106 |
| Zosia Mamet | But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad. | 106 |
| Aaron Swartz | 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. | 106 |
| Chelsea Clinton | My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy. | 106 |
| Chili Davis | 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. | 106 |
| Dusty Baker | You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate. | 106 |
| Eric Bana | I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job. | 106 |
| Georgia Jagger | My dad's not a very intimidating father figure. | 106 |
| Kevin J. Anderson | My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it. | 106 |
| Lyle Lovett | Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication. | 106 |
| Maria Sharapova | Without my dad, I wouldn't be here. | 106 |
| Maurice Sendak | Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar. | 106 |
| Miranda Kerr | I've always had a burning desire to help people and make a difference in the world. I didn't know how I could do that in modelling when it can be such a fake world. But my dad told me I could make a difference by being true to myself and teaching people what I've learnt about spirituality, health and nutrition. | 106 |
| Roy Blunt | I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision. | 106 |
| Sara Blakely | My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. | 106 |
| Will Estes | That's a tough question; I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job. | 106 |
| Annette Funicello | I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father. | 106 |
| Cal Ripken, Jr. | My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room. | 106 |
| Christie Hefner | No, I never thought about my father's money as my money. | 106 |
| Marion Cotillard | My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it. | 106 |
| Rosanne Cash | Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him. | 106 |
| Ruben Studdard | My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will. | 106 |
| Shreya Ghoshal | Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the expectation everybody had apart from my parents. Honestly, I, too, wanted to be a scientist. I think it was the way Dad would explain us scientific theories and concepts that made the subject more intriguing. | 106 |
| Tatum O'Neal | I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle. | 106 |
| Curtis Joseph | I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds. | 106 |
| James Belushi | I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?' | 106 |
| Michael Shannon | My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit. | 106 |
| Mo Rocca | One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that. | 106 |
| Skylar Grey | My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical. | 106 |
| Tyler Posey | 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. | 106 |
| Dirk Nowitzki | My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says: 'Why didn't you shoot there? Why didn't you drive?' | 106 |
| John Mulaney | 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. | 106 |
| Max Irons | I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities. | 106 |
| Michael Bergin | A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool. | 106 |
| Moon Unit Zappa | My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves. | 106 |
| Carly Chaikin | I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed. | 106 |
| January Jones | My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones. | 106 |
| Jennifer Ellison | 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. | 106 |
| David Charvet | I'm just constantly trying to be a good dad. | 106 |
| Bono | Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today. | 107 |
| Chuck Schumer | Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead. | 107 |
| Eddie Vedder | 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. | 107 |
| Leah LaBelle | I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too. | 107 |
| Lisa Marie Presley | I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea; I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song. | 107 |
| Ruby Rose | My mom has really great skin; my dad has really good skin. I don't feel like I have to do a lot of work in regards to that. | 107 |
| Russell Wilson | I had a dream that my dad passed away and that Jesus came into the room and he was basically knocking on my door, saying, 'Hey, you need to find out more about me.' So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church, and that's when I got saved. | 107 |
| Trevor Noah | My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail. | 107 |
| Victor Borge | My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. | 107 |
| Willie Geist | Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends. | 107 |
| Ashwin Sanghi | I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone. | 107 |
| Bob Beauprez | I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it. | 107 |
| Dimebag Darrell | The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning. | 107 |
| Joss Whedon | My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy. | 107 |
| M.I.A. | My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table. | 107 |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni | You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame. | 107 |
| Nico Rosberg | My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever. | 107 |
| Rachel Platten | My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.' | 107 |
| Rick Astley | My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was such an adventure - my siblings and I were allowed to roam and explore the local beaches. We loved the freedom of those trips. | 107 |
| Scott Bakula | I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. It's always been easy, the legalese. | 107 |
| Tony Visconti | My father loved people, children and pets. | 107 |
| Alexa Vega | I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries. | 107 |
| Allison Williams | I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It's not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends' dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor. | 107 |
| Brad D. Smith | I used to walk around with a stick. My dad used to call me Moses. It's on a home video. He said, 'That kid would rather lead no one than follow anyone.' I had dogs following me in the neighborhood. I had neighborhood kids coming over. | 107 |
| Camryn Manheim | One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other. | 107 |
| Chris Isaak | I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing. | 107 |
| Dan Auerbach | Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad. | 107 |
| Dhani Harrison | The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me. | 107 |
| Dolores Huerta | My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father. | 107 |
| James Caan | I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads. | 107 |
| Mike Shinoda | My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted. | 107 |
| Sevyn Streeter | Every year of my life, my dad has sent me a Valentine's Day gift. Whether I was in the same house or across the country, he always sent something. | 107 |
| St. Vincent | My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it. | 107 |
| Candis Cayne | When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.' | 107 |
| Errol Flynn | My father was never anti-anything in our house. | 107 |
| Jennifer Grant | I'm sure there was some part of his soul was intrinsically happy, but he probably had to go through some permutations to really get that to blossom. I'm sure Dad had his challenges, but I think that joy was there from the beginning and he had to find a way to make his life support that and express that. | 107 |
| Michael Reagan | I had never said, 'dad, I love you.' | 107 |
| Tyler Posey | On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude. | 107 |
| Ben Roethlisberger | I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time. | 107 |
| Chandler Parsons | My mom has accepted my style. My dad is a little suspect with all the bright colors and loud stuff. He's a khakis and polo kind of guy. He's OK with it, but the loud stuff, he says I'm his little daughter. | 107 |
| Charice Pempengco | Maybe sometimes, when I see some kids, you know, with their families. It's making me cry. You know, maybe when I ask them, sometimes, like, 'How does it feel to have a dad?' And, you know, they tell me this great answers, and sometimes I wish my dad was here. | 107 |
| Chuck Pagano | When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?' | 107 |
| John Astin | My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true. | 107 |
| Molly Quinn | I love my dad; I'm a daddy's girl, all the way. | 107 |
| Joe Biden | My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.' | 108 |
| William Wordsworth | The child is father of the man. | 108 |
| Ben Affleck | My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. | 108 |
| Bobby Bowden | I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner. | 108 |
| Heidi Klum | When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time. | 108 |
| Jamie Oliver | My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant. | 108 |
| Miley Cyrus | 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! | 108 |
| O. J. Simpson | I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant. | 108 |
| Wayne Rooney | Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to. | 108 |
| Zendaya | 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. | 108 |
| Alastair Campbell | My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals. | 108 |
| Amy Sedaris | My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him. | 108 |
| Bubba Watson | My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson. | 108 |
| Colin Hanks | When I was younger it was - you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say. | 108 |
| David Walliams | I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll. | 108 |
| Derrick Rose | If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way. | 108 |
| Ezra Koenig | My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege. | 108 |
| Keri Russell | I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life. | 108 |
| Laura Wasser | My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior. | 108 |
| Lee Westwood | My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.' | 108 |
| Steven Curtis Chapman | Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends. | 108 |
| Tamara Ecclestone | My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on. | 108 |
| Brett Hull | I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.' | 108 |
| Lauren London | I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.' | 108 |
| Shahid Kapoor | I don't have a regular happy family like most people. My parents are separated; my dad married someone else and so did my mom. All my siblings are from my parents' other marriages. So yes, it is complicated, and I don't like talking about it or explaining this to everybody. But all this doesn't stop us from being close to each other. | 108 |
| Barbara Castle | 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. | 108 |
| Candace Cameron Bure | My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.' | 108 |
| Dolph Lundgren | My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me. | 108 |
| Star Jones | My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby. | 108 |
| Jenna Ushkowitz | When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me. | 108 |
| Sheena Iyengar | Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices. | 108 |
| James Woods | My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of. | 108 |
| Joe Barton | Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal. | 108 |
| Mike Trout | As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad. | 108 |
| Hannibal Buress | My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him. | 109 |
| Kehlani | My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother. | 109 |
| Larry Elder | 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. | 109 |
| Norman Lear | But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. | 109 |
| Orson Scott Card | I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. | 109 |
| Russell Wilson | My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.' | 109 |
| Slash | My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan. | 109 |
| Ville Valo | I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god. | 109 |
| Aisha Tyler | 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. | 109 |
| Ansel Elgort | My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him. | 109 |
| Dweezil Zappa | I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements. | 109 |
| Johnny Vegas | I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion. | 109 |
| Sam Shepard | My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad. | 109 |
| Wilt Chamberlain | And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali. | 109 |
| Adrian Peterson | My dad would always tell me, 'When you meet a man, look him in his eye and shake his hand,' and that's just something I've been doing for a long time. | 109 |
| John Ciardi | Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. | 109 |
| Lana Parrilla | I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself. | 109 |
| Mayer Hawthorne | My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot. | 109 |
| Miranda Cosgrove | My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family. | 109 |
| Sarah Hyland | You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney! | 109 |
| Suresh Raina | I've always wanted to buy a sports car. After the England series, I went up to my dad and said that I wanted to buy a sports car and got his consent. On his birthday, I surprised him by bringing it home. It's a Porsche Boxter Limited Edition, and my family was thrilled to see it. | 109 |
| Sanjay Dutt | None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward. | 109 |
| Simon Newcomb | My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. | 109 |
| Jennifer Ellison | Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu. | 109 |
| Josh Duhamel | I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect. | 109 |
| Michael Jackson | I just wish I could understand my father. | 110 |
| Anna Wintour | 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.' | 110 |
| Bill Burr | I gotta be honest with you. I'm kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels? | 110 |
| Courtney Love | I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel. | 110 |
| David Chang | My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done better at school, I don't know if I would have been a chef. | 110 |
| David Beckham | 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. | 110 |
| David Mamet | 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. | 110 |
| Gerard Way | Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably. | 110 |
| Gordie Howe | My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar. | 110 |
| Harry Connick, Jr. | My Dad is my hero. | 110 |
| Heather Graham | It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK. | 110 |
| Howard Schultz | I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream. | 110 |
| Kyle Chandler | I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen! | 110 |
| Mark Cuban | If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date? | 110 |
| Mitt Romney | My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do. | 110 |
| Pedro Almodovar | La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school. | 110 |
| Pete Rose | My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. | 110 |
| Spike Milligan | My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. | 110 |
| Stevie Nicks | It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. | 110 |
| Tom Brady | 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. | 110 |
| Trey Parker | 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. | 110 |
| Vince Vaughn | My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing. | 110 |
| Wiz Khalifa | My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun. | 110 |
| Alan Cumming | My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life. | 110 |
| Alex Gibney | When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep. | 110 |
| Brandon Lee | 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. | 110 |
| Frank Iero | When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times. | 110 |
| John Boehner | Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. | 110 |
| Loni Anderson | My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related. | 110 |
| M.I.A. | Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin. | 110 |
| Meghan Daum | It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are. | 110 |
| Mickey Spillane | My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick. | 110 |
| Sundar Pichai | My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated. | 110 |
| Thomas Perez | I'm proud to be Secretary of Labor. But I'm even prouder of two more important titles: dad and husband. I've been able to be all three. I want all working people, no matter what their jobs are, to be able to meet their obligations both at work and at home. | 110 |
| Dikembe Mutombo | My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life. | 110 |
| John Galliano | If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told... I was made to believe it wasn't right. If I went a little bit too off - slap! It was Dad's upbringing and it was Victorian, and that's the way he was. | 110 |
| Robert Moog | To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off. | 110 |
| Beth Ditto | My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood. | 111 |
| Blake Shelton | The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve. | 111 |
| Denis Leary | 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. | 111 |
| Gerry Cooney | I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym. | 111 |
| Gertrude Stein | There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. | 111 |
| Harrison Ford | I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship. | 111 |
| Katherine Jenkins | In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I've been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me. | 111 |
| Kathleen Sebelius | From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act. | 111 |
| Laila Ali | My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children. | 111 |
| Lil' Kim | All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says. | 111 |
| Lily James | I used to go to musicals every birthday - that was my birthday present. We'd go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw 'Mamma Mia' about five times. | 111 |
| Natalie Cole | I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.' | 111 |
| Nicole Kidman | I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.' | 111 |
| Paris Hilton | When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover. | 111 |
| Tiger Woods | My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend. | 111 |
| Yani Tseng | When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125. | 111 |
| Courteney Cox | You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up. | 111 |
| Jay London | I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out. | 111 |
| John Boehner | I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office. | 111 |
| John C. Reilly | When I first joined SAG, there was another John Reilly. My dad was John Reilly, too, but growing up I was John John. Nobody in life calls me John C. It's more like, 'Hey you, Step Brother!' | 111 |
| Rory McIlroy | My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory. | 111 |
| Sam Elliott | I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad. | 111 |
| James Nesbitt | Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends. | 111 |
| Sylvia Browne | A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it. | 111 |
| Toni Braxton | Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age. | 111 |
| James Blunt | My grandparents live in Cley, and my dad now has the windmill which is a guest house. So I've spent much time up there, but a lot of it was at school as well, and my dad was sent abroad so often as well with the army. | 111 |
| Sam Ewing | Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. | 111 |
| Adam Sandler | I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that. | 112 |
| Anthony Kiedis | I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend. | 112 |
| Charlie Puth | When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help them and then tip them as well, so I learned my empathy from my dad, and my mum is very empathetic too, but in a very stern way; she will always check my ego. | 112 |
| Chief Joseph | My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people. | 112 |
| Conrad Hall | Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten. | 112 |
| David Chang | Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it. | 112 |
| David Mamet | 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. | 112 |
| Guy Fieri | I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar. | 112 |
| Harrison Ford | 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. | 112 |
| Hugh Laurie | 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. | 112 |
| Iggy Pop | I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free. | 112 |
| Pink | 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.' | 112 |
| Robert Griffin III | You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad. | 112 |
| Ann Richards | I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong. | 112 |
| Cindy Sherman | My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even. | 112 |
| Dean Koontz | 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. | 112 |
| Evander Holyfield | I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ. | 112 |
| Kenny Loggins | We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled. | 112 |
| Lynn Johnston | Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. | 112 |
| Rainn Wilson | My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. | 112 |
| Steve Albini | My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man. | 112 |
| Akon | I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives. | 112 |
| Ed Miliband | I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism. | 112 |
| Gary Sheffield | My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get. | 112 |
| Matt Dillon | I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon. | 112 |
| Christine Keeler | As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me. | 112 |
| Joseph Gordon-Levitt | My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail. | 112 |
| Bobby Knight | My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.' | 113 |
| Geraldine Brooks | I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader. | 113 |
| Harry Connick, Jr. | My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents. | 113 |
| Harry Reid | I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them. | 113 |
| Henry Cavill | My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance. | 113 |
| Iggy Azalea | As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite. | 113 |
| Rob Lowe | 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. | 113 |
| Russell Wilson | I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl? | 113 |
| Tony Dungy | People have to understand how important it is for kids to be nurtured by their mom and dad and get the great role modeling when they are young. | 113 |
| Ville Valo | 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. | 113 |
| Ashley Tisdale | 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. | 113 |
| Bruce Dickinson | 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.' | 113 |
| Diane Lane | I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic. | 113 |
| Dimebag Darrell | The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. | 113 |
| M.I.A. | I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom. | 113 |
| Rory McIlroy | I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them. | 113 |
| Jeff Koons | I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us. | 113 |
| Ryan Giggs | Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black. | 113 |
| Josh Hartnett | My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger! | 113 |
| Mark Hoppus | Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war. | 113 |
| Shaun Alexander | You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine. | 113 |
| Ashton Kutcher | My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad. | 114 |
| John Cena | I'm the one person who wears the words 'hustle, loyalty, respect' on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It's very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it's even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, 'I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you're doing. You're a role model for my son.' | 114 |
| Michael J. Fox | 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. | 114 |
| Robert Rodriguez | I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. | 114 |
| Ron White | When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range. | 114 |
| Steve Irwin | There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then. | 114 |
| Suzanne Collins | 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. | 114 |
| Tina Fey | We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn't let us watch 'The Flintstones' if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of 'The Honeymooners'. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old 'Honeymooners'. | 114 |
| Zoe Kravitz | My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing. | 114 |
| John C. Reilly | 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. | 114 |
| Summer Sanders | I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner. | 114 |
| Adrian Peterson | I was always fast; I was always racing guys that were older than me and beating them, so I always had speed. I was able to make good cuts at a young age, on the side of the house with my dad, going through different plays, working on cuts and stuff like that. | 114 |
| Glenn Frey | I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living. | 114 |
| Jennifer Garner | My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education. | 114 |
| Meghan Trainor | When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally. | 114 |
| Richie Sambora | You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that. | 114 |
| Ryan Giggs | I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster. | 114 |
| Bertrand Russell | The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. | 115 |
| Gary Numan | My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances. | 115 |
| Jim Gaffigan | All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it. | 115 |
| Larry Elder | 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. | 115 |
| Nate Ruess | My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this. | 115 |
| Steven Gerrard | I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry. | 115 |
| Stuart Scott | The most important thing I do is I'm a dad. | 115 |
| Suzanne Collins | My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever was on... the nightly news would come on, and I'd see footage from the war zone, and I would hear the word 'Vietnam,' and I would know my dad was over there, and it was a very frightening experience for me. | 115 |
| Zach Braff | 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. | 115 |
| Amy Adams | My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints. | 115 |
| Apolo Ohno | My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always. | 115 |
| Cat Deeley | The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding. | 115 |
| Geoffrey Rush | 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. | 115 |
| Rainn Wilson | The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet. | 115 |
| Jennifer Garner | I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed. | 115 |
| Mark Hoppus | 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. | 115 |
| Jenson Button | The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be. | 115 |
| J. C. Chandor | I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working. | 115 |
| Lady Gaga | I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night. | 116 |
| Al Pacino | My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother. | 116 |
| Luke Evans | 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. | 116 |
| Marco Rubio | My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.' | 116 |
| Simon Cowell | My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in. | 116 |
| Steve Irwin | 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. | 116 |
| Ta-Nehisi Coates | My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition. | 116 |
| Taylor Momsen | I love my mom and dad. | 116 |
| Thierry Henry | 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. | 116 |
| Ann Romney | I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. | 116 |
| Matt Smith | I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn't. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud. | 116 |
| James Levine | Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table. | 116 |
| Drake | My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool. | 117 |
| Benicio Del Toro | My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers. | 117 |
| Cam Newton | My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive. | 117 |
| Dan Gable | My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws. | 117 |
| David Crystal | As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. | 117 |
| E. B. White | The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. | 117 |
| Harry Connick, Jr. | I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through. | 117 |
| Homaro Cantu | From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work. | 117 |
| Leona Lewis | When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer. | 117 |
| Paul Lynde | My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that. | 117 |
| Paul McCartney | I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it. | 117 |
| Pete Townshend | I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue. | 117 |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met. | 117 |
| Roger Federer | Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents. | 117 |
| Shia LaBeouf | My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude. | 117 |
| Steve Buscemi | My dad had a temper. I have a temper. Most people I know have a temper. And I think it comes out mostly with your family. I don't think it's unique to the Buscemis, but it's something I've been able to tap into when I play certain roles. | 117 |
| Anne M. Mulcahy | My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it. | 117 |
| Ben Barnes | 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. | 117 |
| Jeb Bush | It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations. | 117 |
| Katie Price | The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me. | 117 |
| Robert Pattinson | My dad says he likes to bask in my glow. | 117 |
| Sasha Grey | My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world. | 117 |
| Sebastian Bach | They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends. | 117 |
| Sebastian Coe | I have always been very good at being able to structure my time. My mother had a huge influence on me. My dad was my coach. He was a hugely influential figure. | 117 |
| Carre Otis | I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam. | 117 |
| Anais Nin | I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. | 118 |
| Joe Biden | When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football. | 118 |
| Big Sean | My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going. | 118 |
| Bobby Orr | My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me. | 118 |
| Donald Glover | I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there. | 118 |
| Fred Allen | My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. | 118 |
| Gabby Douglas | You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much. | 118 |
| Janis Joplin | My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house. | 118 |
| Jimmy Fallon | My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass. | 118 |
| Joseph Joubert | Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. | 118 |
| Kevin Bacon | My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him. | 118 |
| Mike Birbiglia | Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.' | 118 |
| Sidney Poitier | My father was the quintessential husband and dad. | 118 |
| Slash | I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into. | 118 |
| Tom DeLonge | My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today. | 118 |
| Wayne Rooney | Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare. | 118 |
| Zach Galifianakis | 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. | 118 |
| Eric Bana | I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work. | 118 |
| Jerry Hall | My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you'd say he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. | 118 |
| Mario Balotelli | I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge. | 118 |
| Anushka Sharma | Once, I was coming back from school, and there was this guy who was eve-teasing me and my friend. I had a Milton water bottle that I flung it at his face. My dad told me if you are in a crowded place and a guy eve-teases, you should make noise. I did exactly that and got people on the road to beat up the guy. | 118 |
| Imelda Marcos | I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. | 119 |
| Brad Paisley | My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him - any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch him lead that way. | 119 |
| Eddie Vedder | No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what. | 119 |
| Jeff Bridges | For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad. | 119 |
| Kathryn Bigelow | My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have. | 119 |
| Noel Gallagher | I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man. | 119 |
| Paul Ryan | My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin. | 119 |
| Russell Wilson | 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. | 119 |
| Mike Myers | Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline. | 119 |
| Andre Agassi | You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward. | 120 |
| Betty White | 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. | 120 |
| Bindi Irwin | After losing Dad, there was the idea that none of us have forever. It really affects you. It makes you want to live each day as if it's your last. | 120 |
| Dan Gable | My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet. | 120 |
| Pete Wentz | There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind of nostalgia for them that I won't let go. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag. | 120 |
| Sarah Silverman | And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school. | 120 |
| Tony Hawk | The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox. | 120 |
| Bella Thorne | My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white. | 120 |
| Cameron Diaz | I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.' | 120 |
| Robert Pattinson | I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.' | 120 |
| Sherri Shepherd | My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died. | 120 |
| David Bowie | And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. | 121 |
| Justin Bieber | I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family. | 121 |
| Margaret Mead | Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. | 121 |
| Gary Numan | I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started. | 121 |
| Nick Clegg | I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school. | 121 |
| Slash | My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it. | 121 |
| Tom Hodgkinson | Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on. | 121 |
| Tony Blair | My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious. | 121 |
| Bat for Lashes | I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions. | 121 |
| Miranda Kerr | I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life. | 121 |
| Bindi Irwin | One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan. | 122 |
| Blake Shelton | I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, 'Son, you should write a song about your brother.' | 122 |
| Brad Pitt | 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. | 122 |
| Carlos Santana | 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. | 122 |
| Glenn Beck | I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring. | 122 |
| Herbie Hancock | 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. | 122 |
| Hugh Jackman | Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it. | 122 |
| Lewis Black | A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!' | 122 |
| Paul Ryan | Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life. | 122 |
| Randy Pausch | Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level. | 122 |
| Robert Mapplethorpe | My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be. | 122 |
| Ryan Lochte | My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?' | 122 |
| Seth MacFarlane | 'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political. | 122 |
| Tim McGraw | When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age. | 122 |
| Eminem | My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him. | 123 |
| Kid Cudi | These things were happening in my life where I was like, 'Man, I wish my pops was here to see this.' I never had those thoughts before fame, when my life was just a regular life. I wasn't saying, 'I wish my dad could be around and see me working at Applebee's.' | 123 |
| Daniel Radcliffe | My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town. | 123 |
| Eva Green | 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? | 123 |
| Jean de La Fontaine | It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. | 123 |
| Ricky Martin | Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family. | 123 |
| Sidney Poitier | But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity. | 123 |
| Steve Irwin | Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along. | 123 |
| Tim McGraw | You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now. | 123 |
| Mike Myers | And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours. | 123 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. | 124 |
| Bindi Irwin | Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero. | 124 |
| Jason Statham | When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench. | 124 |
| Natalie Portman | My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again. | 124 |
| Steve Carell | I'm a fun dad, but I don't know if I'm the fun, crazy dad. | 124 |
| Steven Gerrard | I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact. | 124 |
| Amy Chua | 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. | 124 |
| Courteney Cox | At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.' | 124 |
| Joe Frazier | When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left. | 124 |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me. | 124 |
| Christian Bale | My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring. | 125 |
| David Mamet | 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. | 125 |
| Shakira | I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman. | 125 |
| Tracy Morgan | 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. | 125 |
| Dave Mustaine | My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference. | 125 |
| Danica McKellar | When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories. | 125 |
| Julian Casablancas | 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. | 125 |
| Gary Vaynerchuk | You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other. | 126 |
| Kevin Hart | My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency. | 126 |
| Harry Connick, Jr. | My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it. | 126 |
| Jennifer Lawrence | I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up. | 126 |
| Jimmy Fallon | I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with. | 126 |
| Paul Lynde | Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics. | 126 |
| Priyanka Chopra | 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. | 126 |
| Thom Yorke | My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are. | 126 |
| Tyler, The Creator | 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. | 126 |
| Cameron Diaz | My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now. | 126 |
| Josh McDowell | Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.' | 126 |
| David Rockefeller | My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. | 201 |
| Denis Leary | My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in. | 201 |
| George Clooney | I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on. | 201 |
| Gordon Ramsay | I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies. | 201 |
| Ted Nugent | Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe. | 201 |
| Cindy Crawford | Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful. | 201 |
| John Malkovich | 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. | 201 |
| Sean Penn | Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. | 201 |
| Benedict Cumberbatch | My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education. | 202 |
| Daniel Radcliffe | My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them. | 202 |
| Paul McCartney | 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. | 202 |
| Peyton Manning | My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.' | 202 |
| Tom Hiddleston | Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder. | 202 |
| Dave Mustaine | I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store. | 202 |
| Harry S Truman | My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. | 203 |
| Jay-Z | When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again. | 203 |
| Amy Grant | Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there. | 203 |
| Brendon Urie | I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad. | 203 |
| Bruno Mars | My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer. | 203 |
| Chris Pine | We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional. | 203 |
| Natalie Portman | When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?' | 203 |
| Michael Leunig | When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father. | 203 |
| Bear Grylls | I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it. | 204 |
| Andy Serkis | I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation. | 204 |
| Anthony Kiedis | As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice. | 204 |
| John Cena | My favorite thing about 'Saturday Night's Main Event,' it was that one time where I could stay up late with my dad and four brothers, and we would all beat the tar out of each other while the show was on, and it was all okay because my dad was a wrestling fan. | 204 |
| Miley Cyrus | I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what. | 204 |
| Sherman Alexie | In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.' | 204 |
| Blake Lively | My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his! | 205 |
| Channing Tatum | 'm just going to be a good friend to my kid. One thing I definitely want to change is that whole 'I don't want you to make the same mistakes' mentality. My dad didn't have much money growing up; he didn't have much of an education. He forced that on me, and I didn't want it. | 205 |
| Evangeline Lilly | People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk shows. There had been a real dry spell of intelligent family-oriented viewing: the type of program that Mom, Dad and the kids can all watch together. With 'Lost,' there are just so many characters for people to invest in. | 205 |
| Matt Groening | 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. | 205 |
| Paul Walker | I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too. | 205 |
| Carrie Underwood | My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent. | 206 |
| Gerard Way | You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other. | 206 |
| Henny Youngman | My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City? | 206 |
| Tiger Woods | All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all. | 206 |
| John Cusack | My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s. | 206 |
| Dennis Miller | I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life. | 207 |
| Shakira | I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration. | 207 |
| Sebastian Vettel | I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together. | 207 |
| Aldous Huxley | Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. | 208 |
| Ellie Goulding | Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things. | 208 |
| Hope Solo | I wear my dad's cross. It's very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game. | 208 |
| John Cena | My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling. | 208 |
| Sugar Ray Leonard | Boxing is individual, although there's a team concept because you need a great corner, you need a great trainer, you need a great prep man, you need all of these things, but it's more of a Mano a Mano; it's more you versus me. I miss that time in training camp and Dad and Mom cooking meals. It was one big family. | 208 |
| Stephen Colbert | 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. | 209 |
| Shah Rukh Khan | Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works. | 210 |
| Steven Spielberg | I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working. | 211 |
| Marco Rubio | My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them. | 211 |
| Rudy Giuliani | 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. | 211 |
| Lady Gaga | I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad. | 212 |
| Cara Delevingne | When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit. | 212 |
| Christopher Walken | Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that. | 212 |
| Drake | I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes. | 213 |
| Brad Goreski | I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time. | 213 |
| Hugh Jackman | One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan. | 213 |
| Jeff Bridges | Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that. | 213 |
| Kristen Stewart | My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl. | 213 |
| Miranda Lambert | I've dated all kinds of guys and didn't know who I'd end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not. | 213 |
| Gary Oldman | 'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad. | 214 |
| Jo Brand | I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her. | 214 |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it. | 215 |
| Jimmy Fallon | I want to be a dad. That's floating to the top of my list. I think it's such an important thing. I'm at the age where everyone has kids, and I ask them, 'Is it like a puppy?' And they go, 'It's 10 times a puppy.' | 215 |
| Publilius Syrus | An angry father is most cruel towards himself. | 215 |
| Shaquille O'Neal | As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I'd score 40 points. I'd come home and say, 'Look dad, I scored 40.' He'd never have a smile on his face. He'd be like, 'I saw that move you did. What if you'd hurt your knee?' | 215 |
| Zooey Deschanel | My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.' | 215 |
| Ashley Tisdale | My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there. | 215 |
| Jason Mraz | Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that. | 215 |
| Joe Biden | My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.' | 216 |
| David Beckham | 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. | 216 |
| Kid Rock | I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that. | 216 |
| Miley Cyrus | I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs. | 216 |
| Shakira | My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him. | 216 |
| Queen Latifah | There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings. | 217 |
| Robert Downey, Jr. | Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way. | 217 |
| Daniel Radcliffe | I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up. | 218 |
| Fiona Apple | But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism. | 218 |
| Magic Johnson | My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs. | 218 |
| Paul McCartney | Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical. | 218 |
| Gary Vaynerchuk | People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom. | 219 |
| Christian Bale | Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly. | 219 |
| Miley Cyrus | My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that. | 219 |
| Adam Sandler | 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. | 220 |
| David Bowie | 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! | 221 |
| Lady Gaga | The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car. | 221 |
| Adam Sandler | The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad. | 221 |
| Jennifer Aniston | My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way. | 221 |
| Tiger Woods | Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun. | 221 |
| Billie Joe Armstrong | 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. | 222 |
| Channing Tatum | If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss. | 222 |
| Charlie Sheen | Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business. | 223 |
| Beyonce Knowles | I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation. | 224 |
| Charlie Sheen | Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever. | 224 |
| Marco Rubio | My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that. | 224 |
| Anthony Hopkins | My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker. | 225 |
| Floyd Mayweather, Jr. | I'll back up anything my dad says. | 225 |
| Marco Rubio | They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams. | 225 |
| Ellen DeGeneres | My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support. | 226 |
| Paul McCartney | My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish. | 226 |
| Joel Osteen | 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. | 301 |
| Charlie Sheen | What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money. | 301 |
| Emma Watson | 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. | 301 |
| George Eliot | All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. | 302 |
| Mitt Romney | I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics. | 302 |
| Bill Gates | OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known. | 304 |
| Jesse Ventura | Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water. | 304 |
| Taylor Swift | My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader. | 305 |
| Horace | Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. | 306 |
| Shia LaBeouf | I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad. | 306 |
| Marc Jacobs | Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes. | 306 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference. | 307 |
| Shia LaBeouf | I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be. | 307 |
| Jerry Seinfeld | I love being a dad. I just love it. | 308 |
| John F. Kennedy | My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. | 309 |
| Kim Kardashian | I always wanted what Mom and Dad had. | 309 |
| Hugh Jackman | My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad. | 309 |
| Kim Kardashian | I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own. | 311 |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing. | 312 |
| Hugh Jackman | I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act. | 313 |
| Jim Carrey | My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted. | 313 |
| Tiger Woods | My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.' | 313 |
| Kim Kardashian | I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'. | 314 |
| Wayne Dyer | I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad. | 314 |
| Angelina Jolie | I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are. | 314 |
| Daniel Radcliffe | My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't. | 314 |
| Katy Perry | 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. | 316 |
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it. | 317 |
| Michael Moore | Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems. | 322 |
| John Lydon | I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear. | 402 |
| Mitt Romney | You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams. | 404 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail. | 405 |
| Bertrand Russell | The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. | 407 |
| John Wooden | I was built up from my dad more than anyone else. | 407 |
| Steven Spielberg | My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience. | 410 |
| Joel Osteen | When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe. | 411 |
| Ted Cruz | My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick. | 413 |
| Marilyn Manson | My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension. | 501 |
| Clint Eastwood | My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level. | 503 |
| Mitt Romney | When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?' | 505 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash. | 509 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | When one has not had a good father, one must create one. | 514 |
| Joel Osteen | I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well. | 614 |
| Bill Gates | Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position. | 617 |
| Joel Osteen | My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow. | 717 |
| Joel Osteen | I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into. | 721 |
| Bill Gates | 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. | 812 |
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