Dad Quote by Lucas Till

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my…

— Dav Pilkey

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a…

— J. K. Rowling

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

— Chris Cooper

Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

— Ram Charan

I knew I wanted to create a character who was nerdy and kind of square, so when I drew a square sponge, everything came…

— Stephen Hillenburg

My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program…

— Bre Pettis

My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly…

— Sherwood Anderson

In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys…

— Mike McCue

I came up with a lot of characters when I was growing up that were just creative outlets, and then, at one point, I…

— Gus Dapperton

Me and my older brother used to do little stupid sketches from a young age, so it was always there but I never thought…

— Katy Wix

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

— Steve Sabol