Famous Quotes
- 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 on Dad
- I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!
- Kyle Chandler on Dad
- I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
- Yancy Butler on Dad
- I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad's a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars - how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I could remember, I've always envisioned myself in a vintage muscle car.
- Amber Heard on Dad
- 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.
- George Clooney on Dad
- I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.
- Shaun Alexander on Dad
- I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
- Charley Pride on Dad
- I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.
- Lisa Guerrero on Dad
- I grew up with baseball I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.
- Jonah Hill on Dad
- I had a dad you know.
- Darrell Hammond on Dad
- I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.
- 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 on Dad
- I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
- Rainn Wilson on Dad
- 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.
- Vince Gill on Dad
- I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did.
- Nicole Richie on Dad
- I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
- Ryan Giggs on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- I had never said, 'dad, I love you.'
- Michael Reagan on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.
- Curtis Stone on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'
- I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.
- I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.
- Miranda Kerr on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.
- Annette Funicello on Dad
- I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.
- Tony Parsons on Dad
- I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.
- Miley Cyrus on Dad
- I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
- Ernie Harwell on Dad
- I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.
- Willow Shields on Dad
- I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
- Imelda Marcos on Dad
- I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
- Jeff Foxworthy on Dad
- I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.
- Gary Numan on Dad
- I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.
- Mark Viduka on Dad
- 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.'
- Cameron Diaz on Dad
- I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.
- Ville Valo on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
- Orson Scott Card on Dad
- I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.
- Miguel Indurain on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- I just wish I could understand my father.
- Michael Jackson on Dad
- I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
- Barry White on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- 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 on Dad
- I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.
- Colin Hanks on Dad
- I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.
- Christopher Eccleston on Dad
- I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.
- Jamie Redknapp on Dad
- I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.
- Anthony Kiedis on Dad
- I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
- Halle Berry on Dad
- I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.
- Sally Pearson on Dad
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