All Quotes

My dad played fiddle as well.
‐‐ Robert Plant

My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.
‐‐ Phil Niekro

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.
‐‐ Shawna Thompson

My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.
‐‐ Ryan Giggs

My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it's really just keeping your cool in situations and learning to balance everything.
‐‐ Cassie Steele

My dad put me with all the greatest people. It definitely helped me now, because I know so much more about music and composition. It's cool. I love Pops. I'm super thankful for everything he's done to help my career.
‐‐ Ty Dolla Sign

My dad put up a great hoop in our front yard in our driveway. I was in Oregon, so I had to be out there in the rain. We didn't always have a gym to go to.
‐‐ Kevin Love

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'
‐‐ Pink

My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
‐‐ Barry Hannah

My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then at one point, the bookmobile started coming to town. That was really cool. I mean, that was when I read my first Raymond Carver story. I think that was probably 1969 or so. I must have been 13.
‐‐ Tom Drury

My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
‐‐ Pamela Anderson

My dad read 'The Danish Girl' and fell in love with it. He told me, 'You need to do this film.'
‐‐ Alicia Vikander

My dad reads the scripts and passes them on to me.
‐‐ Kodi Smit-McPhee

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
‐‐ Parker Posey

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.
‐‐ Mike Shinoda

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
‐‐ Carlos Santana

My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft.
‐‐ Alec Berg

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
‐‐ Gary Sheffield

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.
‐‐ Natalie Portman

My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30-ft-high stone wall to keep it out.
‐‐ Neil Marshall

My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
‐‐ Lake Bell

My dad's a jeweller, and my mom works for a bank.
‐‐ Robbie Amell

My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.
‐‐ Raquel Cassidy

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.
‐‐ Meghan Markle

My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.
‐‐ Allyson Felix

My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative.
‐‐ John Boyega

My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's a bluegrass musician. It's always been a part of the family.
‐‐ Timothy Simons

My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort

My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
‐‐ Patrick Murphy

My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all.
‐‐ Eloise Mumford

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.
‐‐ Rory McIlroy

My dad's a sound designer, and he used to take me to work with him.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke

My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism.
‐‐ Vinessa Shaw

My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.
‐‐ Jo Brand

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.
‐‐ C. Thomas Howell

My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.
‐‐ Alice Eve

My dad's American, and my mom's French. I lived in France for the first 18 years of my life, then came here to go to school at the College of William and Mary. I studied marketing. I really didn't know what I wanted to do, so I thought that's what I should do - study business - because it would give me the best chance to find work.
‐‐ Stephanie Szostak

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

My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major.
‐‐ Brett Dalton

My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.
‐‐ Olivia Cooke

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

My dad's cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He became paranoid and thought people were stealing from him, when often he was just misplacing things.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen

My dad's cool. He is socially liberal.
‐‐ Casey Wilson

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.
‐‐ Dean Norris

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.
‐‐ Meaghan Rath

My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.
‐‐ Grace Jones

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
‐‐ Dan Stevens

My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.
‐‐ Tinashe

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.
‐‐ Mike Mills