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At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.
— A.J. Styles
I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.
— Ram Charan
My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.
— Post Malone
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.
— Travis Scott
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.
— Eric West
I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
— John Wooden
My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
— Sam Brownback
My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.
— Derek Jeter
My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.
— Jon Lovitz
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
— Brad Pitt
I remember when I was younger. Dad's agent came round, and I asked if she would represent me. She didn't represent children at the time, but I wouldn't let her leave the house until she agreed. I've always been quite headstrong.
— Eleanor Tomlinson
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.
— Gerard Way
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.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.
— Dwyane Wade
'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.
— Matt Groening
My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.
— Brian Greene
My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.
— Danny Meyer
I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.
— Natalie Cole
I have a massive Samoan family. And the Samoan culture has always played a massive part of my life. I've got hundreds of family on my dad's side that live in Samoa and in New Zealand. I've just been surrounded by the culture ever since I was a kid.
— KJ Apa
Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.
— Mitt Romney
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.
— Joel Osteen
My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
— Marilyn Manson
My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.
— Al Franken
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.
— Bill Gates
Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
— Bill Gates
People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.
— Bill Gates
The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
— P. J. O'Rourke
My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.
— Mitt Romney
Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.
— Joyce Meyer
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.'
— Marco Rubio
I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, 'Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?' And it's like, yeah, honey, they do.
— Michelle Obama
My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.
— Clint Eastwood
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.
— Clint Eastwood
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.
— Michael Moore
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.
— 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.
— Lady Gaga
Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
— Lady Gaga
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
— Joel Osteen
My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
— 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.
— Joel Osteen
My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.
— Robert Kiyosaki
In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail.
— 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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I think my dad has helped me tremendously.
— Rand Paul
My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
— Rand Paul
My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.
— Patti Smith
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.
— Jeff Bridges
The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to playing cowboys is my father, Lloyd Bridges. When I was a little kid, I loved to dress up like a cowboy - put on the boots, hat, and walk around. He was in a lot of westerns, and my dad loved to ride.
— Jeff Bridges
My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.
— Kate Winslet
Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up they just taught me to be me. 
— Kate Winslet
My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.
— 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.
— Katy Perry
My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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.
— Kevin Hart
My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
— 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.
— Ted Cruz
This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.
— Penn Jillette
I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!
— David Bowie
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.
— David Bowie
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.
— Joss Whedon
I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempestuous relationship with my dad when she was young, and that was gripping and sometimes upsetting.
— Howard Jacobson
You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.
— Martin Freeman
I wasn't like a Fifties dad.
— Martin Freeman
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
— James Wan
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
— James Wan
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
— Bertrand Russell
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
— Bertrand Russell
I drove my mum and dad mad.
— Nicola Sturgeon
My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.
— Steven Spielberg
I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.
— 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.
— 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.
— Steven Spielberg
Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.
— Ridley Scott
I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.
— 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.
— Tracy Morgan
My dad was good with actions.
— William Shatner
My dad died of a stroke.
— William Shatner
Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
— Orlando Bloom
Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
— Orlando Bloom
I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.
— Daniel Radcliffe
My dad'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.
— Daniel Radcliffe
When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.
— Guy Fieri
I think my dad is highly gender-neutral. If he doesn't like someone, he'll articulate that, and I think it's also part of what resonates about him. He'll say what he's thinking.
— Ivanka Trump
It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.
— Rita Ora
My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.
— Rita Ora
My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.
— Rita Ora
I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.
— Rita Ora
My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.
— Rita Ora
I've been going to Bicester Village since I was young. My mum and dad really loved that place, and I always used to stock up on clothes. I love the fact that it supports great British designers.
— Rita Ora
Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.
— 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.
— Shia LaBeouf
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.
— John Lydon
I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.
— Joan Rivers
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.
— Andy Serkis
My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it.
— Blake Lively
My dad was an English professor.
— Blake Lively
Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.
— Drew Barrymore
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.
— Jo Brand
My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.
— Jo Brand
My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.
— Jo Brand
It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
— Venus Williams
I'm always on the court with my dad.
— Venus Williams
My dad loves to eat, and he loves everything I make!
— Venus Williams
My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
— Al Franken
My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life. 
— Al Franken
My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
— Al Franken
My dad was a terrible businessman.
— Al Franken
My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.
— Rob Lowe
A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.
— 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.
— Jason Statham
The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.
— Jason Statham
I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.
— Andie MacDowell
In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.
— Terry Pratchett
Mickey Rourke's character in 'The Wrestler' - that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my family. It was the only thing they knew. And then they would end up wrestling for a hundred bucks, go to autograph signings for two hundred bucks.
— Dwayne Johnson
When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.
— Dwayne Johnson
I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.
— Tori Amos
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.
— Brad Goreski
I would say the dumbest thing I have heard is that my dad isn't my real dad.
— Khloe Kardashian
If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts - but it's not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it's any better - but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.
— Jay-Z
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.
— Brad Paisley
My dad was a preacher.
— Matthew Desmond
My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.
— Charli XCX
My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.
— Denis Leary
My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.
— Chris Pine
I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
— Shakira
At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.
— Shakira
The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.
— Shakira
I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
— Shakira
My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nonsense.
— Alain de Botton
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.
— John Cena
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.
— Michael Leunig
My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little artistic inspiration here and there in the form of a guitar, stuff like that.
— Trent Reznor
My dad is an egomaniac.
— Sia
What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.
— Peter Jackson
My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.
— Peter Jackson
My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
— Mike Birbiglia
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
— George Eliot
I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.
— Christina Milian
When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
— Ron White
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
— Karin Slaughter
I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.
— Karin Slaughter
If you're a girl, you're always Daddy's little girl. You're vulnerable, no matter how worldly or sophisticated or strong you'd become along the way. My dad Lionel let me know how proud he was, even as he kept me from being too big for my britches.
— Donna Brazile
Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'
— Donna Brazile
I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him.
— Claire Danes
When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.
— Ashton Kutcher
My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really.
— Bruce Springsteen
I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.
— Bruce Springsteen
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.
— Anushka Sharma
My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people. 
— Laura Dern
My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
— Laura Dern
To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
— Laura Dern
I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.
— Rick Scott
I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.
— Jason Bateman
My father was a writer/director/producer, so instead of throwing a ball around, our bonding was going to see movies. And at an early age, I knew if I wanted to impress my dad, it was not going to be by throwing a ball real far.
— Jason Bateman
You, Dad, in the large scheme of things, don't matter. I, Dad, don't matter. We're vectors on the grids of cellular life.
— David Shields
I've always loved video games. I played 'Ms. Pac-man' with my dad, and I Ioved 'Galaga' and 'Tempest' and grew up on the standing arcade games. Even to this day, my dad will call me if he's playing 'Ms. Pac-man' and hold the phone up to the game.
— Aisha Tyler
My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.
— Aisha Tyler
I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.
— 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.
— Aisha Tyler
My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
— Bill Hader
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.
— Jeb Bush
I think my dad's post-presidency, he didn't miss a beat. He didn't get into any kind of 'Woe is me.' He dusted himself off and led an incredible life since 1993.
— Jeb Bush
I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.
— Jeb Bush
Shout-out to my dad - he influenced my style when I was 17.
— Theophilus London
I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.
— Theophilus London
The first time I went to New York, I went with my first boyfriend, Clark. His dad had just bought an apartment in New York, and my dad dropped us off, and we were there for a week on our own. I must have been 15 or 16. I remember I went to Harlem and bought a goose jacket. That was the hip, hot thing.
— Kate Moss
My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.
— Rachel Kushner
I have my dad's shape. No booty.
— Queen Latifah
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.
— Tiger Woods
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.
— Paul Theroux
Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
— Bono
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
— John Malkovich
When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in.
— Priyanka Chopra
My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
— 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.
— Sam Shepard
People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.
— Bob Newhart
My dad died of a heart attack when I was 15. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school. I went through a divorce - those not-so-great things are all a part of me, and they give me a place to go when I cover those stories on the news. I'm more empathetic, more relatable because of them.
— Megyn Kelly
My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
— Katee Sackhoff
I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.
— Dave Grohl
My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.
— James Nesbitt
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.
— Beyonce Knowles
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.
— Jerry Hall
My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.
— Nikki Reed
My dad was the way he was, but he also gave me a motto: never say die. Just to keep pushing and pushing, fighting until the end. He put it in my head that you're always going to fight, and you're always going to beat them.
— Jason Day
My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.
— Jason Day
When you lose someone whose life was so extraordinary like my dad's, you have two options: You can curl up in a dark corner... or rise above it and dust yourself off and continue with their work. He will always be with me.
— Bindi Irwin
I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.
— Travis Scott
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
— Gertrude Stein
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
— Mahesh Babu
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
— David Mamet
My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.
— David Mamet
I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.
— Diane Lane
My greatest dream is to work with my dad someday as an actress.
— Bryce Dallas Howard
My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.
— Bryce Dallas Howard
I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.
— Steve Carell
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
— Anthony Hopkins
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.
— Zadie Smith
I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
— Natalie Cole
My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.
— Alexa Chung
My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.
— Stephen Curry
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
— Herbie Hancock
I don't think I can boast about him. 'Hey, my dad is a British institution; he's done all these incredible things and I'm really proud of him.' There is a certain baggage that comes with that in England.
— Rebecca Hall
Everybody wanna be a super dad and the best dad ever, but sometimes, I'm just realizing that I'm not perfect.
— Future
My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
— Amy Jackson
Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.
— Jeremy Corbyn
My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.
— Jessica Simpson
I went to see England against Switzerland at Wembley with my dad and brother, too. That was in 2008, Fabio Capello's first game in charge. Jermaine Jenas scored, and we won 2-1. I remember the national anthem was incredible. I sang it with pride - always do.
— Harry Kane
My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck.
— Johnny Van Zant
My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in.
— Johnny Van Zant
I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.
— David Harewood
My dad 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.
— Will Ferrell
My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.
— Shaun White
People say, 'You will be 30 years old; you're too old. You'll get your nose broke,' say dad's a pushy dad. You hear stupid things and put them out of your mind.
— Katie Taylor
My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.
— Christopher Buckley
My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.
— Ben Zobrist
I remember taking my stabilisers off my bike with my dad in the back garden. It was a small little bike, and it was called Poppy, had balloons on it, and was purple.
— Lizzie Armitstead
Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
— Paul McCartney
My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.
— Paul McCartney
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!'
— John C. Reilly
I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.
— Geoff Dyer
In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That's the first gift - so my dad was no different.
— Diego Costa
It's weird, the idea of someone else playing my dad, but weirdly nice.
— Lily James
My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.
— Serena Williams
Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
— Adam Sandler
My 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
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
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
— 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.
— Harrison Ford
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
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
I grew up with a truck. My dad had one, so I like trucks.
— Lucas Till
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
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
My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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
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
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
— Publilius Syrus
I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.
— Gordon Ramsay
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
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
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
— Lenny Kravitz
My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.
— Seann William Scott
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
— Sean Penn
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
— Chief Joseph
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
They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.
— Sebastian Bach
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
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
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
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
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
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
— Rainn Wilson
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
Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.
— Cindy Crawford
My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.
— Chris Hemsworth
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
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
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
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
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
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
My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City? 
— Henny Youngman
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
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
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
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
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
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
— Christopher Meloni