Famous Quotes
- 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.
- John Astin on Dad
- My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
- John F. Kennedy on Dad
- My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.
- Gwyneth Paltrow on Dad
- 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.
- Scott Stapp on Dad
- My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
- My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
- Daisy Donovan on Dad
- My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.
- Thierry Henry on Dad
- My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.
- Rashida Jones on Dad
- My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
- My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
- 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.
- Cameron Diaz on Dad
- My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.
- Dierks Bentley on Dad
- My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
- Levon Helm on Dad
- My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.
- Harry Connick, Jr. on Dad
- My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special he's still one of my favorite writers.
- Andre Dubus III on Dad
- My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
- John Boehner on Dad
- My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
- Jennifer Aniston on Dad
- My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.
- Daniel Radcliffe on Dad
- My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
- Rod Stewart on Dad
- My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'
- Mayer Hawthorne on Dad
- 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.
- 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 on Dad
- My dad didn't drive - the only dad I knew who didn't.
- Julie Burchill on Dad
- My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
- Gavin DeGraw on Dad
- 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.
- Tom Glazer on Dad
- My dad died of a stroke.
- William Shatner on Dad
- My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.
- Leslie Bibb on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God is right here with you all the time. He's your buddy, and you can talk about everything.
- Lucy Alibar on Dad
- My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.
- Nate Ruess on Dad
- My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
- Sara Blakely on Dad
- My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
- Sam Brownback on Dad
- 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.
- Hugh Laurie on Dad
- My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.
- Shaun White on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
- Joel Osteen on Dad
- My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
- John Cusack on Dad
- My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.
- Brion James on Dad
- My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
- Bill Nighy on Dad
- 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?
- David Hyde Pierce on Dad
- My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.
- Mitt Romney on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.
- Loni Anderson on Dad
- 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.
- Emily Mortimer on Dad
- My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.
- Richard Russo on Dad
- My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
- Ezra Koenig on Dad
- My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.
- Colin Hanks on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
- Zosia Mamet on Dad
- My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson on Dad
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