All Quotes

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.
‐‐ Billy Baldwin

My dad was a holistic doctor, so putting good things into my body has always been something I've strived for.
‐‐ Callie Hernandez

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
‐‐ Dan Savage

My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
‐‐ J. D. Souther

My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.
‐‐ Martina McBride

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.
‐‐ Reeve Carney

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
‐‐ Patrick J. Adams

My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.
‐‐ Jamie Dornan

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
‐‐ David Mamet

My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My dad was a no-nonsense guy. As a kid, I hated his rules, but as a man, I understand what he was teaching. He taught me you have to work hard for everything you get.
‐‐ Nick Ferguson

My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.
‐‐ Robert Stromberg

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.
‐‐ Larry Elder

My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.
‐‐ Brendan Coyle

My dad was a mechanical engineer and a drummer. We had no money, but I never felt we had no money, and that's what I remember now, having my own child. I think, 'Oh so what?' Kids don't go around the house seeing what's wrong with it.
‐‐ Donna Air

My dad was a Methodist minister.
‐‐ George McGovern

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
‐‐ Tony Blair

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.
‐‐ Marion Cotillard

My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
‐‐ Taryn Manning

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.
‐‐ Kris Allen

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
‐‐ Branford Marsalis

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
‐‐ Madi Diaz

My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could, in the morning before school. Sometimes he would tell us moralistic tales about genies, magic carpets and wondrous lands. My mother is not religious - she's just English.
‐‐ Bat for Lashes

My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
‐‐ James Mercer

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.
‐‐ Joe Lhota

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.
‐‐ Timothy Simons

My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds at the hospital and talk to patients. We'd spend time in the car talking about what was going on with them, their stories.
‐‐ Pierre Omidyar

My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.
‐‐ Craig Thompson

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.
‐‐ Libba Bray

My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese

My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.
‐‐ Brandon Flowers

My dad was a professional track racer. It's in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins

My dad was a Punjabi from Amritsar, and my mom is a Punjabi from Kashmir. My dad was a soldier in the Indian Army.
‐‐ Akshay Kumar

My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.
‐‐ Drew Pomeranz

My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind - I've always loved it.
‐‐ Xavier Rudd

My dad was a Republican. My mom - my mom was mostly a Republican, although she voted for McGovern over Nixon. She was really proud of that. She also did, however, work for Trent Lott.
‐‐ Jennifer Palmieri

My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he's not paralyzed or anything, but he's had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.
‐‐ Channing Tatum

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
‐‐ Dean Norris

My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.
‐‐ Katy B

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.
‐‐ Amy Klobuchar

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.
‐‐ Magdi Yacoub

My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.
‐‐ Johnny Gimble

My dad was a terrible businessman.
‐‐ Al Franken

My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.
‐‐ Mark Billingham