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My dad used to tell me, 'Look, son, opportunity does not come knocking.' It's usually running down the street, and you have to chase it down, you have to tackle it, and then you have to hang on to it.

David A. Clarke, Jr.

Son, Opportunity, Me

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.

Shreya Ghoshal

Parents, Thought, Think

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

Camryn Manheim

Memories, Father, Me

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

Michael Reagan

Adult, Only, Trusted

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

Michael Reagan

Father, City, Hill

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

Annette Funicello

Father, Thought, Always

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

Angela Carter

Father, Never, Back

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

Christie Hefner

Money, Father, Thought

My father loved people, children and pets.

Tony Visconti

Children, Father, People

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

Jennifer Ellison

Sister, Clever, Born

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Janis Joplin

Father, House, Us

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Yancy Butler

Friends, Village, Up

I'm glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, 'Oh, he'll just do the same as his dad.' Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald.

Rory Kinnear

Myself, Thinking, People

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.

Monica Seles

Day, Lost, Early

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

Charley Pride

Father, Never, Him

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.

Tom Hardy

Love, Day, Me

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.

Dave Mustaine

Family, Food, School

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

Mira Sorvino

Father, Me, Taught

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.

Colin Hanks

Time, College, Know

My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft.

Nina Conti

Myself, Character, I Am

The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.

Topher Grace

Good, Company, Good Company

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.

Tabatha Coffey

Life, Creativity, Genius

I didn't always want to be a dad.

Liam Gallagher

Want, Always

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.

Jennifer Lawrence

Growing Up, Me, Wood

Can I play a southern character? You betcha. Can I do the voice of Tourist Dad and Carnival Barker? Ya betcha. Can I do Fix-It Felix? Ya betcha. But I don't want to just play southern characters, so I hide it; I bury it. I tamp it down like a secret. Like a dirty little secret.

Rob Huebel

Character, Want, Play

I'm being a dad and a good husband.

Chad Smith

Good, Husband, Good Husband

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

John Lithgow

Good, Father, Wife

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

Bruno Tonioli

Art, King, Natural

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.

Slash

Rock And Roll, Guitar, Know

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

Star Jones

Relationship, Baby, Words

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

Simon Newcomb

Father, Men, Rational

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.

Jennifer Grant

Life, Happy, Joy

I remember going on carriage rides with Dad when we'd visit. I think quiet L.A. suited him better, but he loved to see shows here, he loved to visit his friends in the Hamptons.

Jennifer Grant

Friends, Remember, Think

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

Steven Adams

Work, Me, Bring

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.

Norman Lear

Me, People, Know

I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.

Bam Margera

Day, Today, Feel

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.'

Pat Summitt

Work, Day, Grow

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.'

Robert Pattinson

Son, Restaurant, Drama

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.

Paul Reiser

Time, Parents, Lost

I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.

Jake Owen

Life, Best, Father

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

Christine Keeler

Father, Girl, Horse

I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.

Ron Reagan

Character, Door, Mind

Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?

Neil Marshall

Time, History, Growing Up

I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.

Fred Korematsu

Family, Son, Child

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

Anthony Quinn

Love, Children, Good

When I stopped playing hockey and started acting, the last person I was going to ask for help was my dad. He's the king of being like, 'I don't know. It's good work if you can get it. Good luck.'

Wyatt Russell

Work, Good, Hockey

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.

Questlove

Life, Parents, Road

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.

Charles Schwab

Road, Friend, You

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

Michael Bergin

Father, Powerful, Tool

As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.

Nate Robinson

Shoes, Growing Up, Me

I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life.

Kimberly Willis Holt

Life, Myself, Military

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

William Petersen

Challenge, Doctor, Lawyer

My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.

Joe Lando

Honest, Guy, Straight

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.

Eric Trump

Work, Future, Friends

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

Liv Tyler

Love, Try, Sometimes

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.

David Cone

Eye, Me, Remember

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.

Kevin Love

Rain, Great, Always

I was lucky. A lot of people have that. People that don't tell you what you want to hear, but what's best for you. I was blessed with great friends. I was always blessed that way. My dad always kept good people around me. I just got lucky. Because of the spotlight you're in, people are scared to tell you otherwise.

Kevin Love

Friends, Good, Best

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.

Candace Parker

Training, Credit, Years

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

Prince Charles

Father, Eyes, Dress

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

Ed Miliband

Road, Book, Believe

I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in less than an hour. I want to be the best dad in the world. I want to play Richard II, and I want to win another Tony award.

Robert Sean Leonard

Best, Win, World

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.

Wilt Chamberlain

Father, Fight, Leaving

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

Jon Hamm

Life, Rainbow, Winter

I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.

Lindsay Fox

Simple, Motivation, Think

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

Lou Brock

Problem, Animals, Legs

I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.

Aaron Johnson

Beautiful, World, You

Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.

Gavin O'Connor

Love, Parents, Giving

I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'

Rachel Keller

Born, Grass, Give

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

Marc Davis

Father, Something

I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants!

Buddy Valastro

Daughter, Name, Restaurant

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

Broderick Crawford

Father, Mother, Perfect

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

Jason Sudeikis

Growing Up, Face, Remember

On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.

Michael Foreman

Age, Death, Long

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

Sally Pearson

Family, Truth, Me

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

Damon Wayans

Father, Said, Everyone

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.

Cindy Sherman

Person, Talk, Blacks

When I was 10, I had a paper route. One year, I delivered my papers through a hurricane. My mother was against the idea, but my dad, who was a sergeant in the Marine Corps, overruled her. I was determined to deliver my papers.

Tim Finchem

Mother, Marine Corps, Her

Just growing up, my dad always told me the most important point of the game is the extra point. A lot of people take that play off. It's an opportunity to make something happen, and I'm going to make the most of it.

Eric Berry

Opportunity, Growing Up, Me

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.

Frank Iero

Music, You, Blues

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

Dinah Shore

Money, Best, Father

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'

Mario Van Peebles

Life, Me, Young

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.

Jerry Doyle

Community, Today, Pride

One of my earliest memories is my father telling me to behave because I'm about to meet and work with the greatest actor of all time. Then this old guy comes out and I was like, 'Pfff, he doesn't look anything like Luke Skywalker, I don't know what my dad is trying to tell me here.'

Sean Maguire

Work, Time, Memories

My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.

Petra Stunt

Life, Parents, Proud

I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.

Portia Doubleday

Work, Family, Business

I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.

Ty Burrell

Time, Advice, Help

I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college, so I grew up with the gear in my house - like the sticks, the helmet.

Tyler Posey

Life, College, My Life

I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.

Tristan MacManus

Work, Home, Job

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

Victor Borge

Father, Mother, Caught

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

August Strindberg

Family, Father, Enemy

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Oliver Hudson

Father, Me, Mean

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

Oliver Hudson

Today, Modern, Things

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

Lindi Ortega

Growing Up, Latino, Bass

I grew up on film sets and I had a ball. It wouldn't have had nearly as much fun if my dad had been working behind a desk somewhere. I remember being on the set of 'The Godfather: Part III,' and all the kids were running around and doing crazy things, and Francis Ford Coppola just embraced that.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

Crazy, Fun, Remember

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.

Leander Paes

Art, Excellence, Parents

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

Tom Bosley

Family, Business, Father

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

Daisy Donovan

Change, Worry, People

I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a kind guy.

Cody Horn

Life, Man, Smart

I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.

Pablo Schreiber

Love, Family, Husband