All Quotes

My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.
‐‐ St. Vincent

My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.
‐‐ James Wolk

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.
‐‐ Bellamy Young

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
‐‐ Tiger Woods

My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'
‐‐ Dhani Harrison

My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.
‐‐ Michael Shannon

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
‐‐ Phil McGraw

My dad used to sell a type of commodity contract. It was so complicated, he was certain his sales people didn't understand what they were selling.
‐‐ Nicholas Jarecki

My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets.
‐‐ Keri Hilson

My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.
‐‐ Roma Downey

My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'
‐‐ Marco Rubio

My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'
‐‐ Russell Wilson

My dad used to work at IBM, so we used to get discounts on computers and stuff, and I did have a ThinkPad.
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

My dad wanted me to be a businessman, but I felt that wasn't for me.
‐‐ Vincent Rodriguez III

My dad wanted me to be a professional person, which I was - I was a civil engineer. I graduated from civil engineering at USC in California. I became an engineer, and I helped design the roads for the L.A. County Roads Department. And I did that for about one and a half years in a sense to please my parents - to be a 'respectable' person.
‐‐ James Hong

My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.
‐‐ Rita Ora

My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.
‐‐ Young Thug

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.
‐‐ Randy Travis

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
‐‐ Rainn Wilson

My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.
‐‐ Gary Numan

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
‐‐ Lindi Ortega

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.
‐‐ Neil Cavuto

My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.
‐‐ Adam Ferrara

My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
‐‐ Bill Hader

My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles.
‐‐ Natalie Morales

My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.
‐‐ Topher Grace

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.
‐‐ Jim Evans

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.
‐‐ Bill Huizenga

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.
‐‐ Tim Roth

My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.
‐‐ Brian Greene

My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.
‐‐ Joseph Mitchell

My dad was a crazy person, but some of the best qualities about me came from him.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

My dad was a cross-country truck driver.
‐‐ John Searles

My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven't got the time for it.
‐‐ Martin Clunes

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
‐‐ Arabella Weir

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.
‐‐ Ken Kercheval

My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
‐‐ Ian McShane

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.
‐‐ Matthew Goode

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
‐‐ Hale Irwin

My dad was a great business guy, and he always taught us that his business acumen would put his workers' kids through school, and their great artistry... would put my brothers and me through school.
‐‐ Tim Kaine

My dad was a great dad.
‐‐ Bijou Phillips

My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up until I went to bed.
‐‐ Charlie Haden

My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.
‐‐ Paul Lynde