All Quotes

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.
‐‐ Miley Cyrus

My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.
‐‐ Alice Eve

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in.
‐‐ Robbie Williams

My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.
‐‐ Jeremy Northam

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
‐‐ John L. Phillips

My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.
‐‐ Cory Booker

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.
‐‐ Frank Lampard

My dad showed me a football and would throw it up and have my dog - a German Shepherd - chase me around when I went after the ball. I caught it because I was scared of that dog. The next year, my dad talked to the commissioner of a local league and convinced him to let me play as a first grader with third graders.
‐‐ Austin Seferian-Jenkins

My dad signed me up for some acting classes at a place in Honolulu, and there I got to audition for some L.A.-based talent agents. I got a few 'callbacks' and so my mom and I decided to fly to California and check it out!
‐‐ Maxim Knight

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.
‐‐ Mike Myers

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.
‐‐ Thom Yorke

My dad started his business, No Limit, for himself.
‐‐ Romeo Miller

My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I remember the first game I got to see him play against the Jets. The Kings beat the Jets, and I was happy that they did. Gretzky left the game after the first period, and I was upset about that.
‐‐ Jonathan Toews

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.
‐‐ Melanie Fiona

My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning.
‐‐ Merry Clayton

My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.
‐‐ Jessica Simpson

My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth

My dad taught me everything. It's been fun walking in his footsteps. He played for his whole life and traveled the country and had a great career. He taught me everything about life and playing golf and how to act. Just everything. I learned so much from him and those days hanging around the driving range.
‐‐ Scott Harvey

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past.
‐‐ Steve Irwin

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

My dad taught me really early so I could take a lot of pressure off my elbow. Because the way I throw it, it doesn't crank up my elbow like everyone else's curveballs.
‐‐ Drew Pomeranz

My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.
‐‐ Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.
‐‐ Bubba Watson

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.
‐‐ Mayer Hawthorne

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.
‐‐ Star Jones

My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.
‐‐ Kodi Smit-McPhee

My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
‐‐ Dan Stevens

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.
‐‐ Jonathan Krohn

My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.
‐‐ Henry Czerny

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
‐‐ Adrien Brody

My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.
‐‐ Mick Mulvaney

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
‐‐ Poppy Z. Brite

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.
‐‐ Jim Thome

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'
‐‐ Peyton Manning

My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out.
‐‐ King Tuff

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke

My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.
‐‐ John Barrasso

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3... Anything with a motor, that was in my blood.
‐‐ Lynsi Torres

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.
‐‐ Rita Ora

My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me.
‐‐ Susan Strasberg

My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
‐‐ Erin Andrews

My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.
‐‐ Kathryn Bigelow

My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
‐‐ Larry Fitzgerald

My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'
‐‐ Joe Biden

My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money.
‐‐ Megan Fox

My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he'd impersonate me.
‐‐ Alison Goldfrapp