My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
‐‐ Bill Nye
My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive
My father was a very good golfer and he got me started early. My grandfather played, too. It was just something that the Kroft family did. I kind of grew up on the golf course.
‐‐ Steve Kroft
My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
‐‐ J. B. Pritzker
My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment.
‐‐ Ajay Mehta
My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.
‐‐ Paula Danziger
My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life very much in the present, full of activities and the next project. He had many hobbies. He was not given to retrospection.
‐‐ Diana Quick
My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.
‐‐ Stephen Pagliuca
My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.
‐‐ Alfred Molina
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.
‐‐ Jon Kabat-Zinn
My father was a writer and an acting teacher.
‐‐ Noah Hathaway
My father was a writer/director/producer, so instead of throwing a ball around, our bonding was going to see movies. And at an early age, I knew if I wanted to impress my dad, it was not going to be by throwing a ball real far.
‐‐ Jason Bateman
My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
‐‐ Caitlin Flanagan
My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my self-esteem.
‐‐ James Burrows
My father was absent and he was a hero to me.
‐‐ Greta Scacchi
My father was absolutely no good.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel
My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychologist. My mother is Jewish, so I grew up in a mixed background. But the common denominator was certainly music, and that was sort of emphasized in my household as music being sort of the spiritual force.
‐‐ Joshua Bell
My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.
‐‐ Paul Lynde
My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
‐‐ Lord Mountbatten
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
‐‐ Andrew Cuomo
My father was all brain and little heart.
‐‐ Stephen Fry
My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.
‐‐ Anthony Horowitz
My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
‐‐ Edwin Moses
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
‐‐ Mike Myers
My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
‐‐ James Nasmyth
My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie
My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage
My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.
‐‐ Peter Hook
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
‐‐ Kate Bush
My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.
‐‐ Alvin Lee
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.
‐‐ Terry Wogan
My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.
‐‐ Doris Lessing
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
‐‐ Broderick Crawford
My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.
‐‐ Sigourney Weaver
My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master's thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn't find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn't read Faulkner.
‐‐ Antonya Nelson
My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
‐‐ Indra Nooyi
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
‐‐ Elizabeth McGovern
My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
‐‐ Umberto Eco
My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.
‐‐ Gilles Duceppe
My father was an agnostic.
‐‐ Jerry Falwell
My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
‐‐ Giles Foden
My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere like Barbados the next day for a long weekend.
‐‐ Chris Hadfield
My father was an all-American football player.
‐‐ Edwin Moses
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
‐‐ Lasse Hallstrom
My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.
‐‐ Dominic Chianese
My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
‐‐ Leon Askin
My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.
‐‐ Ralph Lauren
My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground. I was afraid, very tentative to do anything with music for years. I didn't tell him I was playing in bands when I was away from home, because it had been such an unpleasant experience and a letdown for him.
‐‐ Ronnie Dunn
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
‐‐ Kate Atkinson