All Quotes

My dad did everything he could. It was a start-up, and the banks didn't want to lend him enough money, so he mortgaged our house.
‐‐ Rob Portman

My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orange,' and my mom said, 'I never want to see this movie in my house again.'
‐‐ Jonathan Krisel

My dad didn't drive - the only dad I knew who didn't.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
‐‐ Al Franken

My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.
‐‐ Jim Crace

My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.
‐‐ Daniella Alonso

My dad didn't want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he's a retired Southern Baptist minister.
‐‐ Aaron Paul

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
‐‐ Gavin DeGraw

My dad died 11 years ago, I don't see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don't hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn't develop as it ought to.
‐‐ Neil Morrissey

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

My dad died from cancer when I was 18, and my mom was in a really tough spot. So I wanted to try to help at home. I had started doing some technology consulting.
‐‐ Mike McCue

My dad died from pancreatic cancer at 54... I'm making sure I'm eating my vegetables and staying away from the red meat.
‐‐ Chumlee

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
‐‐ B. B. King

My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took up nearly a third of his income.
‐‐ Rick Wakeman

My dad died right after performing at the Friars' roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have that tape somewhere. There's still a lot of good jokes in there. I mean, that was 1958.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.
‐‐ Pam Ferris

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
‐‐ Dani Shapiro

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

My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in 'G.I. Joe' and 'Transformers' and Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy Smurf, so I grew up with the best bed time stories ever.
‐‐ Ashley Bell

My dad does watch my work now. My parents watch everything I'm on. I think the first time they saw something was 'Captain America,' and he called me, and he was so elated.
‐‐ Kenneth Choi

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

My dad doesn't hug me enough!
‐‐ Jack Whitehall

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

My dad doesn't like to admit it, but he's the ultimate stage dad. He likes to see himself as my manager even though he's not. I tell him to calm down at least twice a week. The day of the Tony nominations, I honestly thought he was having a heart attack.
‐‐ Brandon Uranowitz

My dad doesn't watch 'Coronation Street.' But my mum is a massive fan. I'd like to think my dad will watch it for a few token episodes, as I'm in it.
‐‐ Rob James-Collier

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
‐‐ Alastair Campbell

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

My dad dying was actually a reason for me to stop music properly for about a year, because he was a big supporter. All I wanted to do was write a song about him and, you know, when something's too fresh, you can't quite word it.
‐‐ Gin Wigmore

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

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
‐‐ Sam Brownback

My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.
‐‐ John Mackey

My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, 'Do you think my son has a future?'
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.
‐‐ Chris Hillman

My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.
‐‐ Steve Albini

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.
‐‐ Chili Davis

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

My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.
‐‐ Patti Smith

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

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

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

My dad grew up in Pittsburgh in the '50s, and he used to sing Four Seasons songs on the stoop. He made me listen to Cousin Brucie - the guy who broke the Four Seasons on the radio. So I knew all of their songs, but I didn't know they were all by the same group.
‐‐ Erich Bergen

My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort

My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

My dad had a board, and my older brothers windsurfed. I just wanted to do what my brothers did. I was seven, I think, and I was like, 'Can I go, can I go, can I go?,' and I've never turned back.
‐‐ Nick Dempsey

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

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