All Quotes

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

My dad was in the Indian Army. He died in a terrorist attack in Kashmir in 1994. After that, my mum and I settled in Noida. I went to Delhi Public School in Noida and then to Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi University. It was in college that I realised I wanted to be on the stage and in front of the camera.
‐‐ Nimrat Kaur

My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary.
‐‐ Annette Bening

My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.
‐‐ Nolan Gould

My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
‐‐ Felicia Day

My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't know he could act. I saw that, and I said, 'Wow, I want to be just like him.'
‐‐ Paris Jackson

My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done better at school, I don't know if I would have been a chef.
‐‐ David Chang

My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you'd say he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.
‐‐ Bruno Mars

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.
‐‐ Matt Lauer

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.
‐‐ Trey Parker

My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.
‐‐ Dylan McDermott

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
‐‐ Jim Carrey

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
‐‐ Tiger Woods

My dad was my best friend. I worshipped him. All of my success in life really comes from him. He believed that you get nothing from negativity.
‐‐ Stephen J. Cannell

My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.
‐‐ Bobby Orr

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
‐‐ Matthew Stafford

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
‐‐ Candace Parker

My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
‐‐ Magic Johnson

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.
‐‐ Martin Henderson

My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master.
‐‐ Billy Baldwin

My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

My dad was not happy about my not becoming an architect like him.
‐‐ Daniel Humm

My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him.
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice

My dad was on 'Zombieland,' and I love that movie. So yeah, I think I like the horror genre!
‐‐ Chandler Riggs

My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
‐‐ Dan Hill

My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
‐‐ Rand Paul

My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?'
‐‐ Billy Idol

My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him - any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch him lead that way.
‐‐ Brad Paisley

My dad was pretty old school. I've had a job since I can remember, and it's not like he was like, 'Hey, what kind of car do you want?' My first car was a '91 Ford Crown Victoria that was $1,000. And I had to buy every car after that. I had to do it all.
‐‐ Scott Eastwood

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.
‐‐ Glen Hansard

My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.
‐‐ Mark Gatiss

My dad was real hard on me. He wasn't really big on congratulating and stuff like that.
‐‐ Stefon Diggs

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
‐‐ Robert Carlyle

My dad was so much fun growing up.
‐‐ Abby Elliott

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.
‐‐ Moon Unit Zappa

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.
‐‐ Cindy Sherman

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.
‐‐ Grace Poe

My Dad was such an incredible person, and you have the option of just curling up in a dark corner and letting it all go or you have the option of standing strong, sticking together and carrying on what he lived and died for. And I think that's what's so important - to be able to carry on where he left off.
‐‐ Bindi Irwin

My dad was Superman to me, and in my mind he always will be.
‐‐ Artie Lange

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
‐‐ Bob Balaban

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
‐‐ Christian Bale

My dad was the funniest guy I ever knew.
‐‐ Russell Peters

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck

My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice.
‐‐ Jeremy Lin

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?
‐‐ Henny Youngman

My dad was the way he was, but he also gave me a motto: never say die. Just to keep pushing and pushing, fighting until the end. He put it in my head that you're always going to fight, and you're always going to beat them.
‐‐ Jason Day