All Quotes

My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
‐‐ Madhur Bhandarkar

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.
‐‐ Jason Kilar

My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.
‐‐ Jo Brand

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'
‐‐ Janet Fitch

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.
‐‐ Susumu Tonegawa

My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.
‐‐ Bernard L. Schwartz

My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.
‐‐ Audrey Meadows

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
‐‐ Anna Lee

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
‐‐ John Malkovich

My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my palate generally, but I know it informed my distaste for factory farms and unspectacular commercial meat.
‐‐ Steve Albini

My father was an extraordinary man.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.
‐‐ Mickey Kaus

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
‐‐ Arthur Rock

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

My father was an inspiration to me; I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.
‐‐ Hayley Mills

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.
‐‐ Don Rickles

My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well educated. My mother was a hairdresser who sang every day.
‐‐ Pepe Serna

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.
‐‐ Martin Parr

My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.
‐‐ Frank Gehry

My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an actor. But instead he did two jobs. He did customer service at a hospital and he worked as a waiter at night. He pretty much sacrificed everything for his daughters.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd

My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.
‐‐ Raquel Welch

My father was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. His family is from Spain. My father never taught me how to speak Spanish when I was little. That's very disappointing to me. I'm still planning on learning it on my own. I really want to travel to Spain and immerse myself in the culture and learn it on my own.
‐‐ Kether Donohue

My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew to get a Ph.D. in Amsterdam.
‐‐ Josh Pais

My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.
‐‐ Janet Reno

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.
‐‐ June Jordan

My father was brought up in a theatrical background, just as I was, and his father instilled in him the need to do everything properly and take responsibility for money.
‐‐ Sean Pertwee

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein

My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at the War College.
‐‐ Suzanne Collins

My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.
‐‐ Edward P. Jones

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.
‐‐ Mickey Spillane

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
‐‐ Olivier Martinez

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience.
‐‐ Terry J. Lundgren

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.
‐‐ Leonid Hurwicz

My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
‐‐ Park Geun-hye

My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.
‐‐ Chris Abani

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.
‐‐ Tom Hollander

My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
‐‐ King George V

My father was from Northern Ireland, and coming from somewhere like that, your faith defines you. That's something we don't really understand outside Northern Ireland, but because of my parents and grandparents, I've experienced it.
‐‐ Anna Maxwell Martin

My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.
‐‐ Karen Bass

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

My father was gone when I was three years old.
‐‐ Marc Wallice

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
‐‐ Anthony Hopkins

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.
‐‐ Carol Vorderman

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.
‐‐ David Lagercrantz

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.
‐‐ Pete Townshend

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.
‐‐ Ahmet Ertegun

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

My father was in terrible pain towards the end because of his bed sores, and he did go into hospice, and I think that was better in some ways. You know, I think his death was peaceful, and it was all right. He was just in terrible pain.
‐‐ Roz Chast