My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.
‐‐ Paul Thomas Anderson
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
‐‐ Dan Fogelberg
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.
‐‐ Rachel Hunter
My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
‐‐ Dolores Huerta
My dad was very into cycling and had lots of magazines around the house. So I knew about the best cyclists of that era: Arnaud Tournant, Laurent Gane. I watched a lot of the Tour de France and the Tour of Spain with him.
‐‐ Grégory Baugé
My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.
‐‐ Denis Leary
My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.
‐‐ Kate Winslet
My dad was very religious growing up and a little bit closed minded, and I think me being in the theater, two of my three sisters are dancers, so being in the arts world has changed and opened him up in a lot of ways.
‐‐ Frankie J. Alvarez
My dad was very rough with us.
‐‐ Jason Day
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.
‐‐ A. J. Foyt
My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.
‐‐ Andy Serkis
My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
‐‐ Randy Houser
My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.
‐‐ Miranda Leek
My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.
‐‐ Cory Gardner
My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole
My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
‐‐ Natalia Kills
My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.
‐‐ Miranda Cosgrove
My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.
‐‐ Ato Essandoh
My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years. He is able to teach them how to break old eating and exercise habits and reshape their bodies, but not without a great deal of resistance.
‐‐ Daphne Oz
My dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.
‐‐ Tony Dungy
My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.
‐‐ Michelle Dockery
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.
‐‐ Robert Englund
My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually a history teacher. My uncles and aunts, all of them are elementary school teachers or scientists.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga
My dad worked for child protection.
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth
My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.
‐‐ Mike Krieger
My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.
‐‐ Brad D. Smith
My dad worked nights mostly and while we were growing up, and my mother also worked, so there were times where, when it was just the two of us at home, and, you know, they gave us a pretty long leash, actually.
‐‐ Scott Kelly
My dad worked on ambulances for a while; my mother had a lot of different jobs with the city.
‐‐ Desiigner
My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
‐‐ Nancy Kerrigan
My dad worked three jobs and was a teacher. My mother was a teacher's aid, making, like, $3 an hour. My father went on to get his master's and became active in all these minority engineering programs. And my mother started running for public office. All that happened after the kids were adults. But I'm insanely proud of them.
‐‐ Robin Thede
My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd
My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
‐‐ Magic Johnson
My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth
My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by that was, 'Don't just be successful. Don't just use your talents for your own success. But make a difference with them. Do something significant.' And when I put those two things together, it just causes me to not accept the status quo.
‐‐ Beth Brooke
My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.
‐‐ Jon Lovitz
My dad would always tell me, 'When you meet a man, look him in his eye and shake his hand,' and that's just something I've been doing for a long time.
‐‐ Adrian Peterson
My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.
‐‐ Bella Thorne
My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.
‐‐ Katy Perry
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.
‐‐ Joss Whedon
My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
‐‐ Hannah Kent
My dad would write these sketches for me while I was at 'SNL.'
‐‐ Casey Wilson
My dad wouldn't buy me tight pants. I had to get my own money to buy them.
‐‐ Young Thug
My dad wouldn't even start the car until he heard the click of every seat belt.
‐‐ Drew Lachey
My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
‐‐ Zendaya
My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.
‐‐ Judy Johnson
My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.
‐‐ Alveda King
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
‐‐ Dan Blocker
My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke
My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
‐‐ Forrest Bird