- My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.
- My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
- Arabella Weir on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
- Susana Martinez on Dad
- My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
- Hale Irwin on Dad
- 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.
- Paul Lynde on Dad
- My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
- Dan Savage on Dad
- My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.
- Martina McBride on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.
- Larry Elder on Dad
- My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.
- Brendan Coyle on Dad
- My dad was a Methodist minister.
- George McGovern on Dad
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
- Tony Blair on Dad
- My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.
- Marion Cotillard on Dad
- My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
- Taryn Manning on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.
- Kris Allen on Dad
- My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.
- Paul McCartney on Dad
- My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
- Dean Norris on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.
- Kay Bailey Hutchison on Dad
- My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
- Rainn Wilson on Dad
- My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
- Samuel L. Jackson on Dad
- My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
- Anne M. Mulcahy on Dad
- My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
- Scott McCloud on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.
- Thomas Jane on Dad
- My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
- Scott McCloud on Dad
- 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.
- Bob Balaban on Dad
- 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.
- My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.
- Juliana Hatfield on Dad
- My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.
- Seann William Scott on Dad
- My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
- Mike Myers on Dad
- 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.
- Jonny Lang on Dad
- My dad was good with actions.
- William Shatner on Dad
- My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.
- Albert Finney on Dad
- My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.
- Jason Gann on Dad
- 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.
- My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.
- Trey Parker on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
- Jim Carrey on Dad
- My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
- Tiger Woods on Dad
- My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.
- My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
- Candace Parker on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
- Robert Carlyle on Dad
- My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.
- Moon Unit Zappa on Dad
- 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.
- Bob Balaban on Dad
- My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
- Christian Bale on Dad
- My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
- Harry Connick, Jr. on Dad
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