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My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.

Serena Williams

You, Going, Meet

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

Adam Sandler

Good, Father, Want

My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he's not paralyzed or anything, but he's had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.

Channing Tatum

Life, Pain, Believe

We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my son loved it. I left his dad and went to work slinging hash in a breakfast diner and working nights tending bar in a biker tavern.

Katherine Dunn

Work, Friends, Good

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

Harrison Ford

Love, Relationship, Context

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

Harrison Ford

Work, Age, Man

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.

Danica McKellar

Memories, Great, Book

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.

Fiona Apple

Good, Value, Me

I grew up with a truck. My dad had one, so I like trucks.

Lucas Till

Truck, Up, Like

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

Miley Cyrus

Together, Writing, Four

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.

David Oyelowo

Life, Education, Family

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Father, Problem, You

I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason that my life is good, has real, true value, is that he died. I would obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Love, Life, Good

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.'

Jimmy Fallon

Age, Want, Think

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Publilius Syrus

Father, Angry, Cruel

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

Gordon Ramsay

God, Personality, Me

I think some of my darkness comes from my dad. There is definitely convict history on that side of the family, a lot of dodginess. But with the darkness can also come entrepreneurialism, genius traits.

Rebel Wilson

Family, History, Darkness

My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.

Sherri Shepherd

Day, Friends, Racism

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

Lenny Kravitz

Time, Stand Up, You

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

Seann William Scott

Day, Cancer, Year

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Sean Penn

Father, Now, Interest

I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that.

Christina Hendricks

Children, Experience, Fun

My dad studies and practices homeopathy and Ayurveda medicine. He's a strong believer in both honey and milk as forms of healing. Honey is the one food that does not die. It does not expire. Growing up, he'd always be mixing up almonds or turmeric or gram flower with milk to cure a cough or a cold.

Rupi Kaur

Flower, Food, Strong

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

Shirley Manson

Friends, Mother, Parents

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

Jon Pardi

Song, Me, Boots

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.

Felicia Day

Doctor, Military, Air Force

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.

Zoe Kravitz

Day, Style, Austin

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

J. J. Abrams

Friends, Job, Television

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

Rose Leslie

School, Lost, Remember

We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.

Bonnie Tyler

Life, Family, Good

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

Chief Joseph

Father, Eyes, People

I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

Gene Wilder

Beautiful, Mother, Stupid

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

Sebastian Bach

Life, Friends, Crazy

Honestly, I was such a tomboy as a kid. People were taking from their mothers' closets - I was taking from my dad's closet. It was the '80s, so it wasn't terrible, but I was wearing my dad's dress shirts over jeans from the Gap.

Lauren Graham

Dress, People, Jeans

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

Hilary Duff

Parents, Me, Know

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

Norm MacDonald

Brother, Wind, Me

My girls are great at making fun of Dad. They're never impressed with anything I do. I love that. I hope that never changes.

Alex Rodriguez

Love, Hope, Great

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.

Emilia Clarke

Memory, Child, Me

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

Rainn Wilson

Me, Name, Wanted

The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!

Nazanin Boniadi

Work, Culture, Silence

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

Cindy Crawford

Father, Sexy, Husband

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

Chris Hemsworth

Work, Child, Protection

My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.

Chris Hemsworth

Me, Think, Play

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.

Frank Lampard

Stupid, Me, Argument

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.

Eric Church

Music, College, Me

You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' buys the ice cream, and says, 'Don't tell your mother.' You teach the child to lie - and to disrespect the other parent.

Howie Mandel

Mother, Wife, Child

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

Jennie Finch

Believe In Yourself

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

Nick Cannon

Age, Father, Me

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?

Henny Youngman

Time, City, New York

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.

Martin Henderson

Hero, Team, Young

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.

Steve Irwin

Research, Born, You

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

Bat for Lashes

Family, London, See

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.

Kathryn Bigelow

Art, Great, Heart

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.

Charlie Puth

Empathy, Help, Ego

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

Christopher Meloni

World, Want, Finding

To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks is - it feels like you're finally giving back to your parents. It's like you've actually done something that they can recognize, and there's something in me that makes them super proud.

Sarita Choudhury

Parents, Giving, Me

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.

Al Pacino

Education, Mother, War

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

Billie Joe Armstrong

Life, Father, My Life

My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'

Bruce Dickinson

Best, World, Me

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.

David Walliams

Sister, Dress, Me

I loved going to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial in Taipei to watch all the old Chinese people doing tai chi and practicing kung fu. The monument was made of white marble, and it was beautiful. Sometimes my dad and I would practice with them.

Jimmy Chin

Beautiful, Practice, People

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

Bob Saget

Home, America, Me

My dad always jokes that we should have a reality TV show because my friends and I pull crazy stunts, like putting Saran Wrap on the toilet.

Sofia Richie

Friends, Crazy, Reality

I grew up watching my dad be a singer, so it's something I've always been interested in.

Sofia Richie

Singer, Up, Always

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

Courtney Love

Daughter, Me, Angel

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

Fred Allen

Children, Father, Never

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.

Willie Geist

Hope, Unique, Irony

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.

Roger Federer

Money, Coaching, Tennis

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.

Oliver North

School, Service, War

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

Sasha Grey

World, Lazy, Nothing

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.

Pedro Almodovar

Life, Myself, School

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Jean de La Fontaine

Father, World, Impossible

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?

Kiefer Sutherland

Life, Father, Fishing

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

Patrick Stump

Choice, Funky, Records

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

Anna Wintour

Great, Strong, Personality

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.

Bella Thorne

Sun, I Am, Me

I don't think I have any guilt or embarrassment about any of the TV shows I watch. Maybe the fact that the shows I can watch over and over again are cartoons like 'Bob's Burgers' and 'American Dad' and 'Rick & Morty.'

Ross Butler

American, Guilt, Think

Sometimes, being a single mother, I miss the freedom. I see my other friends with kids, and when they go out for a drink, it is the dad that stays in.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Friends, Freedom, Mother

I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.

Nicole Scherzinger

Man, I Am, Girl

My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.

Burgess Owens

Decision, American, Greatest

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

Thierry Henry

Me, Want, Know

To say that my dad pushed me is an understatement. I was never naturally drawn to football.

Thierry Henry

Football, Me, Say

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.

James Caan

Son, Mistakes, Me

I've always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth - stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics.

Cullen Bunn

Adventure, Youth, Gift

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Father, Done, Never

People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.

Giancarlo Esposito

Love, Father, Mother

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

Bill Burr

Work, Parents, Work Ethic

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.

Joe Frazier

Boy, Hand, Right

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

Adam DeVine

Rules, Me, Know

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

Suzanne Collins

War, Me, Down

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

Terence

Men, Young, Judges

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

James Levine

Family, Step, Employee

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.'

Kid Cudi

Life, Man, Me

My dad was an attorney. The last thing he ever thought about was clothes, and yet somehow he always looked good.

Thom Browne

Good, Thought, Clothes

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.

Troian Bellisario

Myself, College, Me

I like wearing my dad's sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.

Troian Bellisario

Baby, Me, Like

My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.

Bobby Orr

Me, Pressure, Never

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.

Michael Fassbender

Myself, Motorcycle, Italy

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

Jim Gaffigan

Good, Want, Bad

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

Jay London

Music, Father, Myself