289 Quotes on Dad Ratings & Comments

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

Author: Dweezil Zappa

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

Author: Dweezil Zappa

I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

Author: Ahmet Zappa

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

Author: Henny Youngman

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.

Author: Tina Yothers

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

Author: Chely Wright

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

Author: Tiger Woods

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.

Author: Ron Wood

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

Author: Dennis Wilson

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

Author: Dennis Wilson

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

Author: Venus Williams

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

Author: Kim Wilde

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.

Author: Meg White

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

Author: Kim Weston

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.

Author: Kim Weston

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.

Author: Paul Westerberg

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

Author: Len Wein

It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

Author: Karrie Webb

We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.

Author: Andy Wachowski

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

Author: Tony Visconti

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.

Author: Tony Visconti

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.

Author: Tim Vine

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

Author: Nia Vardalos

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

Author: Al Unser

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.

Author: Skeet Ulrich

My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

Author: Skeet Ulrich

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

Author: Liv Tyler

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

Author: Randy Travis

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

Author: Rip Torn

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

Author: Mel Torme

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

Author: Jim Thome

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

Author: Keith Thibodeaux

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

Author: Ruben Studdard

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.

Author: Mark Strong

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Author: Rod Stewart

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.

Author: Parker Stevenson

My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.

Author: Scott Stapp

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

Author: Mickey Spillane

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

Author: Soundarya

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.

Author: Kurtwood Smith

Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.

Author: Kurtwood Smith

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

Author: Nikki Sixx

I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

Author: Nancy Sinatra

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

Author: Nancy Sinatra

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.

Author: O. Simpson

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 anything.

Author: Ashlee Simpson

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.

Author: Sarah Silverman

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

Author: Pauly Shore

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

Author: Billy Sherwood

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

Author: Charlie Sheen

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.

Author: Amy Sedaris

We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.

Author: Ashley Scott

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.

Author: Wally Schirra

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

Author: Adam Sandler

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Author: Adam Sandler

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

Author: Eric San

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

Author: Kurt Russell

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

Author: Geoffrey Rush

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.

Author: Lil' Romeo

My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

Author: Lil' Romeo

When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.

Author: Al Roker

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

Author: Kid Rock

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

Author: Nicole Richie

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.

Author: Ann Richards

And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.

Author: Paul Reiser

In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.

Author: Paul Reiser

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

Author: Paul Reiser

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

Author: Harry Reid

I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.

Author: Jamie Redknapp

Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.

Author: Jamie Redknapp

I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.

Author: Jamie Redknapp

My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.

Author: Jamie Redknapp

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

Author: Michael Reagan

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

Author: Michael Reagan

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

Author: Michael Reagan

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.

Author: Michael Reagan

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

Author: Ted Rall

The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.

Author: Katie Price

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.

Author: Lisa Presley

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

Author: Natalie Portman

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

Author: Natalie Portman

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

Author: Sidney Poitier

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

Author: David Pierce

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

Author: David Pierce

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

Author: John Phillips

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

Author: William Petersen

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.'

Author: Robert Pattinson

My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.

Author: Robert Pattinson

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

Author: Gwyneth Paltrow

Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.

Author: Jack Osbourne

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.

Author: Jack Osbourne

Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.

Author: Stacie Orrico

My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.

Author: Bobby Orr

My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

Author: Jeremy Northam

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

Author: Claude Nicollier

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Author: Stevie Nicks

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

Author: Mike Myers

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

Author: Mike Myers

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

Author: Mike Myers

No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.

Author: Eddie Murray

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

Author: Emily Mortimer

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

Author: Robert Moog

My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.

Author: Dominic Monaghan

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

Author: Joseph Mitchell

The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

Author: Kylie Minogue

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

Author: Ed Miliband

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

Author: Christopher Meloni

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.

Author: Gerald McRaney

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

Author: Tim McGraw

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 now.

Author: Tim McGraw

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Author: Phil McGraw

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.

Author: Paul McCartney

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

Author: Richard Marx

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.

Author: Eddie Marsan

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.

Author: Branford Marsalis

Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.

Author: Marla Maples

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.

Author: Taryn Manning

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.

Author: Taryn Manning

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Author: Shane MacGowan

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

Author: Seth MacFarlane

My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.

Author: Paul Lynde

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

Author: Courtney Love

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.

Author: Greg Louganis

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

Author: Jeremy London

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

Author: Alison Lohman

We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.

Author: Kenny Loggins

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.

Author: Ray Liotta

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

Author: Maya Lin

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

Author: Bob Lilly

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.

Author: James Levine

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

Author: Jay Leno

On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.

Author: Julian Lennon

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.

Author: Julian Lennon

My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.

Author: Julian Lennon

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

Author: John Leeson

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

Author: Alvin Lee

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

Author: Norman Lear

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.

Author: Jennifer Lawrence

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

Author: Hugh Laurie

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

Author: Jonny Lang

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

Author: Joe Lando

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

Author: Emeril Lagasse

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.

Author: Shia LaBeouf

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.

Author: Shia LaBeouf

My dad heard of a studio on the radio, and it was advertised as a place for kids to meet kids, and it was actually a studio, and that's where I met my manager and agent.

Author: Mila Kunis

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

Author: Bill Kreutzmann

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

Author: Lenny Kravitz

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

Author: John Knowles

Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad.

Author: Dexter King

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

Author: Ben King

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".

Author: Harmon Killebrew

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is".

Author: Nicole Kidman

I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.

Author: Vanessa Kerry

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Author: John Kennedy

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

Author: Edward Kennedy

As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.

Author: Stacy Keach

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

Author: Kim Kardashian

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

Author: Marcy Kaptur

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

Author: Star Jones

My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

Author: January Jones

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

Author: January Jones

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

Author: Angelina Jolie

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Author: Angelina Jolie

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

Author: Lynn Johnston

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

Author: Lara John

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

Author: Thomas Jane

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

Author: Brion James

My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.

Author: Hugh Jackman

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.

Author: Steve Irwin

Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.

Author: Steve Irwin

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

Author: Steve Irwin

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

Author: Amy Irving

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

Author: David Icke

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

Author: Isabelle Huppert

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

Author: Rachel Hunter

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

Author: Bobby Hull

I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.

Author: Bryce Howard

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

Author: Jane Horrocks

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

Author: Trevor Horn

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.

Author: Mark Hoppus

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

Author: Tom Hooper

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

Author: Tom Hooper

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

Author: Tom Hooper

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

Author: Paris Hilton

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Author: Tom Hiddleston

It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn't have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough.

Author: Thierry Henry

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

Author: Levon Helm

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

Author: Levon Helm

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

Author: Owen Hart

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.

Author: Owen Hart

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

Author: Randy Harrison

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

Author: Marcia Harden

The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

Author: Zac Hanson

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

Author: Conrad Hall

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

Author: Lisa Guerrero

So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

Author: Lisa Guerrero

Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.

Author: George Grove

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?

Author: Eva Green

My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.

Author: Brian Green

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

Author: Amy Grant

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

Author: Tom Glazer

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

Author: Vince Gill

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.

Author: Mel Gibson

I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

Author: Steven Gerrard

My dad was in the Army and we traveled all over the place and I never failed to win first prize.

Author: Randy Gardner

I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.

Author: Peter Gallagher

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

Author: Glenn Frey

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

Author: Ace Frehley

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

Author: A. Foyt

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Author: Jeff Foxworthy

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.

Author: Harrison Ford

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

Author: Dan Fogelberg

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.

Author: Albert Finney

You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.

Author: Tom Felton

We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.

Author: Bobby Farrelly

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

Author: Dakota Fanning

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

Author: Jim Evans

I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.

Author: Kevin Eubanks

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.

Author: James Ellroy

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

Author: Sam Elliott

I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions.

Author: Shannon Elizabeth

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

Author: Michael Eisner

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.

Author: Atom Egoyan

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Author: Christopher Eccleston

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

Author: Christopher Eccleston

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

Author: Hilary Duff

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

Author: David Duchovny

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.

Author: Jerry Doyle

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

Author: Daisy Donovan

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

Author: Anthony Doerr

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

Author: Matt Dillon

My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

Author: Leonardo DiCaprio

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

Author: Cameron Diaz

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

Author: Cameron Diaz

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

Author: Dustin Diamond

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

Author: Jim DeMint

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

Author: Gavin DeGraw

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

Author: Miley Cyrus

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

Author: Miley Cyrus

I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17.

Author: Miley Cyrus

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

Author: Miley Cyrus

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

Author: Miley Cyrus

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

Author: David Crystal

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

Author: Marcia Cross

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

Author: Peter Criss

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.

Author: Robert Creeley

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.

Author: Sofia Coppola

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

Author: Gerry Cooney

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

Author: Rachael Cook

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.

Author: Robbie Coltrane

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

Author: George Clooney

My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

Author: Rae Chong

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

Author: Neil Cavuto

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

Author: Barbara Castle

My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that.

Author: Nick Cassavetes

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

Author: Rosanne Cash

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.

Author: Rosanne Cash

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Author: Jim Carrey

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

Author: Max Cannon

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Author: Meg Cabot

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

Author: Yancy Butler

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.

Author: Laura Bush

It's not like he called me up and asked me. They've never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this.

Author: Jenna Bush

We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

Author: Dan Burton

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Author: Abigail Buren

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.

Author: Sylvia Browne

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.

Author: Jackson Browne

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Author: Jackson Browne

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

Author: Louise Brown

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.

Author: Lou Brock

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

Author: Poppy Brite

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.

Author: Eric Bristow

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.

Author: Jeff Bridges

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

Author: Beau Bridges

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

Author: Beau Bridges

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.

Author: David Bowie

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

Author: Debby Boone

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Author: Wade Boggs

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

Author: John Boehner

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

Author: Bob Balaban

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

Author: Bob Balaban

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Author: Dusty Baker

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

Author: Tracy Austin

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

Author: John Astin

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

Author: Stuart Appleby

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

Author: Loni Anderson

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

Author: Tim Allen

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

Author: Peter Agre