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  • Ian McShane on dad

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    “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.” -Ian McShane

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  • Todd Akin on dad

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    “I’m a dad and that’s pretty important.” -Todd Akin

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  • Joan Cusack on dad

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

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  • Yancy Butler on dad

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    “I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.” -Yancy Butler

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  • Jackson Browne on dad

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    “Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I’d like to study piano.” -Jackson Browne

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  • Jason Ritter on dad

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    “I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said ‘You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.’” -Jason Ritter

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  • Albert Finney on dad

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    “My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.” -Albert Finney

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  • Rebecca Hall on dad

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    “Whenever I’m in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, ‘You know what: my dad’s a really, really famous theatre director,’ because nobody has any idea.” -Rebecca Hall

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  • Bubba Watson on dad

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    “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.” -Bubba Watson

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  • Jonathan Rhys Meyers on dad

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    “I was just a kid and I didn’t have a dad. That’s hard, because when you’re a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.” -Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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  • Kurt Busch on dad

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    “This is like my dad’s race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn’t race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.” -Kurt Busch

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  • Colin Hanks on dad

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    “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

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  • Lionel Richie on dad

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    “Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I’m dressed to kill in my own mind. They’ll say to me, ‘Dad, you’re not going out there looking like that are you?’ If that doesn’t kill a star, I don’t

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  • Michael Shannon on dad

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    “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.” -Michael Shannon

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  • Gayle King on dad

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    “My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to ‘Satisfaction’ at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend’s house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend’s dad stopped the record when he heard the words ‘girlie action!’” -Gayle King

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  • Kris Allen on dad

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    “I’ve always wanted to be a dad.” -Kris Allen

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  • Ezra Koenig on dad

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    “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.” -Ezra Koenig

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  • Branford Marsalis on dad

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    “My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy’s dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren’t taken with the fact our dad was a musician.” -Branford Marsalis

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  • Parker Stevenson on dad

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    “I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.” -Parker Stevenson

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  • Lynn Johnston on dad

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    “Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.” -Lynn Johnston

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  • T-Pain on dad

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    “My dad always told me that anyone’s voice is just another instrument added to the music.” -T-Pain

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  • Roger Federer on dad

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    “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.” -Roger

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  • Chris O’Donnell on dad

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    “I am an obsessive garage cleaner – my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same way, and now when I’m out there unearthing things in the garage, I realize I am becoming my dad!” -Chris O’Donnell

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  • Amy Sedaris on dad

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

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  • Peter Guber on dad

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    “Most young people haven’t used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.” -Peter Guber

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