Top 100 Quotes About My Dad
#1. When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.
Rory Kinnear
#2. I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'
Robert Pattinson
#3. Troy, I have to find out what happened to my dad."
"We know what happened to your dad. He got smoted. End of story.
Tera Lynn Childs
#4. I had this idea ... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar ... the one that was made from an old fireplace.
Brian May
#5. All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.
Gotye
#6. When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.
Michael Weatherly
#7. I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.
Chaske Spencer
#8. My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.
Josh Brolin
#10. Whenever we went on a trip, picnic, or business trip, I was always with my dad, and I would just always be in contact with cosmonauts, and I thought it would be always normal to be with them.
Roman Romanenko
#11. My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
Al Pacino
#12. When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.
Lou Brock
#13. 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
#14. The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.
Rosanne Cash
#15. My mother had introduced me to a lot of my father's friends because she believed that I would get to know the guy my dad was better through his friends than just in the hospital visits.
Arlo Guthrie
#16. A lot of people will say, "Oh, I got into acting because I wanted to explore my craft." They're a bunch of liars, unless they're Sean Penn, DeNiro or my dad. For the rest of us it was all about chicks and money.
Charlie Sheen
#17. My dad traveled a lot, so I only usually saw him on weekends, growing up. His favorite actors in the world were Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds. If Clint or Burt had a movie out, we would go to the movies. He didn't like movies, generally, unless Clint or Burt were in them.
William Earl Brown
#18. The truth is: I did want to be my dad's poem. I wanted to be his drawing, his novella, his most refined work of art. I wanted him to shape me with his love and intelligence. I wanted him to edit out my mistakes and many indulgences, with a sharp red pencil or a clean eraser.
Alysia Abbott
#19. I hate my jaw. I don't know if it's my dad's - I think I'm more like my mother, my littlest sister looks exactly like my dad and my middle sister is a mixture of the two.
Rumer Willis
#20. If anybody normally has a 45 minute conference call about something, I'm 15 minutes late and then I'm out 15 minutes before everybody else, and I cut to the key information and I move on. I learned that from my dad and guys like Jason Blum, who know how to do that.
Mark Duplass
#21. My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.
Hunter Parrish
#22. My dad's one of my biggest heroes. I also think Paul Newman's an inspiration. I know a lot of people say that, but I love that he's a great role model and a humanitarian. I admire people who don't necessarily want to change the world, but try to make it a better environment.
Alex Pettyfer
#23. 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
#24. My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.
Bobby Clarke
#25. My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
Laila Ali
#26. There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#27. Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat, 'Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.'
Gina Rodriguez
#28. Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.
Edward Burns
#29. My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom's a nurse, which is how they met - in a hospital, over decaying bone.
Suki Waterhouse
#31. My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
Gavin DeGraw
#32. I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.
Akon
#33. Just because my dad is Clint Eastwood doesn't mean I don't have to work for a living.
Scott Eastwood
#34. My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
Matthew Stafford
#35. My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
Danny Boyle
#36. 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
#37. My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
Steve Earle
#38. I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls. So I kind of paved the way of what it was like to raise a teenage daughter.
Dominik Garcia-Lorido
#39. We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.
Seinabo Sey
#40. Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.
Retief Goosen
#41. My dad and I compete on the pool table; that's the most important competition of our lives. The fact that I'm writing and it works for me is one of the great joys for him. We talk about writing, and it's great.
Nick Harkaway
#42. One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey.
Miriam Toews
#43. When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
Eddie Marsan
#44. I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won't even start eating until he's sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose.
Ben Roethlisberger
#45. I don't care how much money you get," my dad used to tell me. "It's not worth it if you're not happy." That's the most valuable piece of advice he ever gave me: Do what you want in life. To this day I've tried to follow that philosophy.
Chris Kyle
#46. I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
Aaron Swartz
#47. 'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.
Bruno Mars
#48. My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.
January Jones
#49. I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.
Ed Begley Jr.
#50. But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
Rachael Leigh Cook
#51. Somewhere outside, a goldfinch was singing. Or maybe it was a song sparrow. My dad tried to teach me different kinds of bird songs, but I couldn't quite remember.
Jenny Han
#52. 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
#54. And I'm not going to be my dad's clone. And women don't turn me on. And Oliver is my home." -Rusty (Christmas Kitsch)
Amy Lane
#55. Some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school ...
John Geddes
#56. I definitely take after my dad, looks-wise. But my mum is my greatest inspiration. All the women in my family are amazing. They're hilarious. I love funny people.
Shari Sebbens
#57. My dad's my best mate, and he always will be.
Cher Lloyd
#58. I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.
Venus Williams
#59. My dad was proud of himself when he farted. He sounds like he's strangling a chicken when he farts.
Carl Barron
#60. Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
Patrick Stump
#61. My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
Aaron Levie
#62. My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.
Nikki Reed
#64. My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't say much. I have the best of both worlds in my personality.
Ella Eyre
#65. I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.
Aisha Tyler
#66. My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.
James Wolk
#67. I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.
Bill Gates
#68. Some of the happiest times I ever saw my dad was times when I was with him in the casinos, and he had a good night.
James Packer
#69. My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.
Mila Kunis
#70. Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
Tim Vine
#71. Apparently my dad wasn't the only paranoid libertarian in Chesterton.
Anonymous
#72. My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
Elvis Stojko
#73. 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 to quit.
Paul Westerberg
#74. While I'm sure this is going to be a fascinating story,' I interrupted. 'I don't care. I'm having a major parental crisis that sort of outshines your little tantrum, and frankly it seems like my dad agrees with you. I have a party to get ready for, can we do this later?
Kody Keplinger
#75. My dad's great. He's my biggest supporter. He's always told me that whatever I choose to do, I can do it. I just gotta put my mind to it.
Apolo Ohno
#76. 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
#77. People say the top part of my face looks like my dad's and the bottom part like my mom's. I have his eyes and her nose and mouth.
River Viiperi
#78. My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.
Domhnall Gleeson
#79. 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
#80. I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents ... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad ... you should be a caveman."
Mike Birbiglia
#81. My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.
Mike Myers
#82. My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always played a huge part in my life.
Kelly Blatz
#83. My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.
Elise Broach
#84. I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure his message lives on forever. I feel like that's why I've been put on this planet - to get my message across.
Bindi Irwin
#85. I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
Shakira
#86. There is not a racist bone in my dad's body. He doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes.
Alan Wilson
#87. I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.
Chord Overstreet
#88. My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.
Suraj Sharma
#89. 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
#90. My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things.
Robbie Lawler
#91. 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
#92. I've always been aggressive and an underdog, and my dad was worried that I would always be that: constantly seeking inspiration from negativity.
Doseone
#93. This house has endured three of my Dad's four wives, and so over the last few decades it's been a home-size mood ring, changing to the styles and temperaments of its female inhabitants.
Matthew Norman
#94. Time machine ... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back ... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass I'm your son from the future! Ahaha!
Dane Cook
#95. When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.
Jerry Doyle
#96. I had to figure out my own faith. That was something I figured out a while ago when I was 18. But I can always stand on the fact that my dad has been a great example for me. Beyond that, building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.
Anthony Evans
#97. My parents always talk about Puerto Rico. My dad's whole family lives in Puerto Rico. My great grandma lives in Puerto Rico and I got to meet her a couple years ago.
Danny Garcia
#98. You know how to shoot?"- Emma
"Yes. My dad taught me everything about gun safety. He was an expert." - Heather
"What happened to him?" -Shanna
"He was ... shot." -Heather
Kerrelyn Sparks
#99. I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence with pride and honor.
Pink
#100. When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.
Kevin James Breaux
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