My dad Quotes · Page 18

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 a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

— Susana Martinez

I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it.…

— Akon

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

— Chris Hemsworth

I am a girl, so I never looked at my dad's body and thought that's what I need to look like.

— Coco Rocha

I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.

— Paige VanZant

I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.

— Trey Parker

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating…

— Christian Hosoi

I've always been funny. I look back in the day, when I would take the mic from my dad in church and…

— Brandon T. Jackson

I've listened to Dylan my entire life. My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat…

— Oscar Isaac

And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the…

— Jennie Finch

My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I…

— Coby Bell

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music…

— Kim Basinger

I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to be a martial arts movie star.' She didn't believe me, and neither…

— Scott Adkins

My dad died when I was 17. He had heart and other problems. He was a good father, lots of love. But…

— Perry Bellegarde

You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he…

— Mark Webber

My mum was an actor until she started having children. I was the first child, so in a way I was the…

— Henry Lloyd-Hughes

Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not…

— Veronica Roth

Normal people, want to be accepted. Screwed up people, want to be accepted. It's one of the few things we have in…

— Christopher Titus

I think also just being from the Midwest, my dad was a stoic Midwesterner, he always told me never take anything for…

— Butch Vig

I remember when I was maybe 27 years old and kind of at the height of my movie stardom - it was…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad's killer comic book…

— Alan Robert

I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I…

— Larkin Grimm

I was a Liverpool fan simply because my dad followed them. Unfortunately I wasn't born when the team had their golden era,…

— Theo Walcott

I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad…

— Lionel Rose

My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we…

— James Mercer

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front,…

— Sam Abell

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends,…

— Cameron Diaz

From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone…

— Simone Elkeles

I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

— Patrick Swayze

My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

— Steve Young

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12…

— Steven Spielberg

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

— Lisa Guerrero

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding -…

— Alyson Stoner

My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.

— Jon Lovitz

My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.

— Seth MacFarlane

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want…

— Will Estes

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

— Thomas Langmann

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my…

— Kid Rock

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

— Ezra Koenig