dad
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘dad’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“You know when everyone’s watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.” -Shaun Alexander
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“We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn’t know what to think cuz we were just joking around.” -Lil’ Romeo
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“My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.” -Kay Bailey Hutchison
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“I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.” -Curtis Joseph
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“Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.” -Toni Braxton
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“We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.” -Trisha Yearwood
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“So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: ’10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He’s a lawyer.’ He didn’t know what was going on. He didn’t even know me. They called him, and he came down and…
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“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
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“My dad still calls me and makes sure I’m taking my vitamins.” -Melanie Fiona
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“I’m gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I’ll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.” -Jeremy London
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“Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad’s ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister’s wedding there. It was beautiful.” -Roman Coppola
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“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
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“As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.” -Danny Bonaduce
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“So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.” -Billy Sherwood
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“My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.” -Sam Brownback
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“Because I was starting out in my 20’s. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn’t want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.” -Rosanne Cash
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“I’m afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it’s tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.” -Gordon Strachan
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“That’s what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they’d have to get new candidates.” -Meg White
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“I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn’t sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.” -Ricky Skaggs
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“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
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“I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren’t wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.” -Eva Longoria
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“I’m Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad’s butt all day today.” -Bam Margera
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“Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.” -Wally Schirra
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“The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, ‘Hey, how’d your dad do this weekend?’ ‘Well, he finished fifth or sixth’.” -Dan…
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“I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I’d spend a quiet week with my mum, then I’d go to my dad’s property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.” -Teresa Palmer
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“My dad would always say, ‘What can you do to make the world a better place?’ Well, I can make people laugh.” -Jon Lovitz
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“Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she’s proud of her dad.” -Marla Maples
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“As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.” -James Ellroy
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“We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.” -Beau Bridges
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“I’m worried because of my mother, she’s going to see my performance and she’s quite hard. She’s going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they’re going to see me like a woman, you know?” -Eva Green
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“My dad didn’t want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.” -Gavin DeGraw
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“Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, ‘Hey, come see my play,’ he’d say, ‘Sure.’ He’d see one, ‘Oh, good play’ – you know, very typical dad reaction.” -Eric McCormack
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“I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time’s a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a…
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“Right now, it hasn’t affected my music other than the fact that I don’t have time to write any of it. That’s no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I’d have…
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“The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.” -George Best
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“I’ve always wanted to be a dad. I just can’t wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I’ve become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.” -Josh Duhamel
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“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
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“But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.” -Richard Marx
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“My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.” -Nancy Kerrigan
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“I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.” -Iggy Pop
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“My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but ‘Harry Potter’, too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don’t you?” -Robbie Coltraine
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“My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she’s a painter.” -Sam Rockwell
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“I’m an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I’ll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn’t, like, step on my toes or…
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“A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He’d be a good film professor.” -Sofia Coppola
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“Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I’d always felt there was something to live up to – expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.” -Greg Louganis
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“I didn’t want to have braces when I was a kid and I’m pretty sure my dad didn’t want to pay for them.” -Jessica Pare
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“If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would’ve said, ‘That’s not how it works.’ But nothing can be more gratifying. I’m a very hands-on dad.” -Chris Robinson
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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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“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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“My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.” -Albert Finney
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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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“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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“I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.” -Yancy Butler
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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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“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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“I didn’t really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, ‘Where’s the rest of it?’ It didn’t have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination…
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“The real beauty of it – key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.” -Vince Gill
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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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“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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“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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“My dad always told me that anyone’s voice is just another instrument added to the music.” -T-Pain
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I’d gone with him to Japan in ’91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.” -Dhani Harrison
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“My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I’ve got two uncles who are in their 90s now.” -Ron Wood
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“My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.” -Amy Klobuchar
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“As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn’t understand it and would try to talk him out of it.” -Taryn Manning
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“My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that’s there. I want to get it all out.” -Glen Hansard
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“There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.” -Owen Hart
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“My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn’t well.” -Neil Cavuto
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“And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It’s someone who’s protective. That’s all.” -Nigel Lythgoe
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“My dad’s half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I’m three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.” -Tom Shadyac
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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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“Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.” -Jamie Redknapp
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“My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.” -Susana Martinez
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“I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, ‘If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.’ And I was about five!” -Sally Hawkins
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“My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer’s mind-set: Everything’s kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?” -Bill Keller
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“My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn’t playing.” -Jim Evans
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“I couldn’t be a cameraman or a designer or an actor – I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.” -Joe Wright
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“My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.” -Tracy Austin
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“When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn’t what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.” -Warwick Davis
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“I found myself very lost after ‘The Partridge Family,’ and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I’m laughing about it now!” -David Cassidy
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“I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn’t have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn’t complain. They didn’t murmur. And they believe in the Christ.” -Evander Holyfield
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“Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.” -Edward Burns
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“My dad told us up front, ‘Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it’s your decision.’” -Peyton Manning
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“As a dad I’m emotionally dedicated but I’m not ‘figuring out their life plans’. But of course as I’m telling them about the rights of wrongs I’m thinking back to what I was like at their age.” -Peter Mullan
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“When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can’t even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me.” -Jenna Ushkowitz
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“I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad’s restaurant in San Diego.” -Charisma Carpenter
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“The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.” -Ray Liotta
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“If I have a problem, stuff’s going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad… I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.” -Jack Osbourne
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“And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I’d quit school he’d pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.” -Sarah Silverman
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“Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn’t see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.” -Jennifer Ellison
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“People say I’m not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I’m doing the best I can.” -Jennifer Weiner
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“My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.” -Bill Kreutzmann
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“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
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“It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I’m going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.” -Paul Giamatti
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“Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.” -David Boreanaz
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“You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan’s son.” -Michael Reagan
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“My dad’s sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.” -Tony Visconti
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“The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.” -Lee Westwood
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“My dad has always been my coach. And I’ve spent so much time with him. So he’s one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.” -Caroline Wozniacki
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“Jenna’s traveled with me they’ve both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they’ve been old enough in all of their dad’s campaigns to really be involved in.” -Laura Bush
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“My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn’t be trusted.” -Mike Shinoda
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“I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, ‘Dad, these people are writing about me like I’m an adult. Don’t they know I’m a kid?’ I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.” -Ornette Coleman
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“My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad’s car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has ‘Kid Charlemagne’ on it.” -St. Vincent
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“I didn’t want to travel. I didn’t want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn’t want that to happen.” -Kim Weston
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“My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I’m very interested in the music scene and I suppose that’s why I’ve ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best…
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“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
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“When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.” -Hope Davis
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“My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I’ve always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.” -Dylan McDermott
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“My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers – all smoking related.” -Loni Anderson
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“I know exactly where I’ve come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.” -Christopher Eccleston
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“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
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“My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That’s what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.” -Richard M. Daley
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“I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.” -Tony Parsons
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“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
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“I think I’m extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you’re getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.” -Skeet Ulrich
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“My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom’s very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.” -Tim Heidecker
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“My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.” -Gary Locke
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“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
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“My dad used to flush my mother’s head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.” -Jessica Hahn
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“My dad’s passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.” -Jennie Garth
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“My dad knows how to tell a story. He’d make me laugh by doing all the different voices.” -Lily Collins
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“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
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“A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.” -Brandon Lee
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“My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.” -Alastair Campbell
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“Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.” -Lauren Graham
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“My dad doesn’t get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn’t understand them. He’s just laughing because people around him are laughing.” -Zach Galifianakis
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“I’m trying to have my own thing, and I don’t know if it’s even possible. I didn’t realize so many people actually think I’m trying to be like my dad. I read comments like ‘She’s no Elvis.’ I’m not trying to be. I never set out to be.” -Lisa Marie Presley
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“My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.” -Benedict Cumberbatch
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“You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am – a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It’s just something that comes natural…
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“I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I’ve inherited both sides.” -Sophie Ellis-Bextor
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“My dad has been a big influence on me, because he’s always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.” -Wiz Khalifa
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“I love to cook. My dad’s a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.” -Olivia Thirlby
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“I could not tell you the date of my mother’s death. I could not tell you the date of my dad’s death. These are not dates that I find significant.” -O. J. Simpson
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“My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers – they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.” -Steve Sabol
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“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,…
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“I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.” -Ann Richards
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“I’m sure there were times when I wish I had thought, ‘Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,’ but our parents didn’t raise us to think about them. They’re very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn’t think of any repercussions.” -Jenna…
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“In the ‘Garnethill’ trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O’Donnell’s dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they’re middle-class – they’re just working class because they speak with accents.” -Denise Mina
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“There’s been times when I’ve had heartbreaking moments and I’m like, ‘I can’t believe you said that,’ or ‘I can’t believe you did that’. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it’ll always hurt, but I’ve never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or…
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“My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents they did what parents are supposed to do.” -Tina Yothers
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“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
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“I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.” -Nick Offerman
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“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…
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“That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs – where he tries desperately to be a ‘TV Dad,’ to give advice and it’s so pat it becomes ridiculous.” -Atom Egoyan
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“My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn’t think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.” -Kevin J. Anderson
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“More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I’m still amazed at the number who aren’t and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom’s got to be the one who stays home, not dad.” -James Levine
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“I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o’clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.” -Criss Angel
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“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
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“I’ve got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody’s equal.” -Nicholas Hoult
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“If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it’s my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.” -Larry Elder
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“My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there’s an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you’ve been a difficult teenager.” -Robbie Coltrane
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“My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.” -Eric Stoltz
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“Parents don’t understand kids and kids don’t understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.” -Mark Hoppus
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“My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who’s a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.” -Benicio Del Toro
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“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
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“My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.” -Matthew Morrison
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“I’m the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids watch R-rated movies. I’ll walk by the movie theater and say, ‘Let’s go see that,’ and my kids will say, ‘No, it’s rated R. It’s not appropriate for kids.’ I’m like Uncle Dad. We have fun.…
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“My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they’re the best songs ever.” -Chris Isaak
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“I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.” -Frank Bruno
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“I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.” -Geraldine Brooks
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“I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I’ll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they’ll never have to work another day. I’ll do whatever it takes to look after them.” -Rory McIlroy
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“My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I’m home.” -Levon Helm
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