Affects Quote by Joe Bastianich

He was the father of the neighborhood and the voice of reason for everyone. Everything I needed to know to run my business and…

— Rich Paul

My dad had a real big reputation as being the hard man, street fighter, the gangster. My stepdad was quite timid, and I wanted…

— Ashley Walters

He was trained as a dancer, and he had both a dancer's body and a dancer's capacity. He incarnated for me the most appealing…

— Lincoln Kirstein

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working…

— David Chang

My father was a man very much like Arthur Winslow. He was a very stern man and very much the authoritarian figure.

— Nigel Hawthorne

The old G's, or the gangsters, turned me away from the street because they knew my dad, and they had a lot of respect…

— Ed Reed

He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as…

— Steven Hall

“Now—after years of knowing what real problems were, after living with a man who was cautiously loving but no longer fawningly committed, a man…

— Allison Winn Scotch

He was a very strict father, which in a way has helped me to become who I am today. He never pampered me, as…

— Ram Charan

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

— Nat Hentoff

My father was a difficult and demanding man.

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

— Sam Shepard