All Quotes

My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe four years old. That was how I started. I started modeling, and it progressed from there.
‐‐ Tinashe

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.
‐‐ Christian Slater

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.
‐‐ Dennis Wilson

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.
‐‐ Catherine Opie

My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.
‐‐ Joan Cusack

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'
‐‐ Bobby Knight

My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy.
‐‐ Chris Stapleton

My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I still do, gathering impressions.
‐‐ Peter Coyote

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.
‐‐ Jason Day

My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.
‐‐ Kay Bailey Hutchison

My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.
‐‐ Rick Smolan

My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
‐‐ Rachel Joyce

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
‐‐ Rainn Wilson

My dad was always super-active and got me in the gym at a young age. He wanted me to be health-conscious. 'Healthy body, healthy mind'; that's what he preached to me.
‐‐ Scott Eastwood

My dad was always taking photos of us at home, and even on set - he'd bring us along and stick us in the photos in the background. It was almost the beginning of acting for me, like, 'Hey, you go over there and play basketball in the background, and don't even think about the camera.'
‐‐ Ansel Elgort

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
‐‐ Samuel L. Jackson

My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is an actress. My granddad was a cameraman. They would've been surprised if I wanted to be a dentist or something like that.
‐‐ Charlie Rowe

My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'
‐‐ Dolly Wells

My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.
‐‐ Brian Herbert

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.
‐‐ Kevin Bacon

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.
‐‐ Eric Bristow

My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.
‐‐ Michael Moore

My dad was an attorney. The last thing he ever thought about was clothes, and yet somehow he always looked good.
‐‐ Thom Browne

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.
‐‐ Michael Moore

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
‐‐ Anne M. Mulcahy

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it.
‐‐ Anne M. Mulcahy

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
‐‐ Bill Keller

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
‐‐ Scott McCloud

My dad was an English professor.
‐‐ Blake Lively

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.
‐‐ Thomas Jane

My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.
‐‐ Steve Breen

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.
‐‐ David Mamet

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.
‐‐ Stephen J. Cannell

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
‐‐ Scott McCloud

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
‐‐ Bob Balaban

My dad was born in Haiti, and my mom was born in Tunisia. She is the daughter of a white French woman and a black, half-Guadeloupian, half-American man. My mom traveled the world a lot. She went through Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. She just got to experience a lot of different cultures, and that came through my childhood.
‐‐ Cecile McLorin Salvant

My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
‐‐ Maya Lin

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.
‐‐ Seann William Scott

My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose my jobs carefully so I wouldn't have to take too much time off. It got harder toward the end with my A-levels; there were sleepless nights, and I was doing my homework on the plane coming home, but I pulled through.
‐‐ Georgia May Jagger

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
‐‐ Mike Myers

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.
‐‐ Jonny Lang

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.
‐‐ Albert Finney

My dad was in a Beatles cover band. My mom wore Candies and belly buttons. The people in our family were very glamorous. They wore pearls like Jackie O.
‐‐ Azita Ghanizada

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
‐‐ Steve Earle

My dad was in radio; he was a broadcaster, and it was in the family. He hosted kind of a game show at one point on TV; he was the original host of 'Good Day New York,' and he hosted the Jerry Lewis telethon for 15 years.
‐‐ Greg Fitzsimmons

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.
‐‐ Jason Gann

My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.
‐‐ James Blunt

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
‐‐ Al Pacino