Dad Quotes - Page 18

• My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

  Tim Roth

  Country, Party, Communist

  "Tim Roth: who's the daddy?". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2012.

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• I'm a dad and that's pretty important.

  Todd Akin

  Important

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• I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

  Patrick Duffy

  Careers, Young, Stability

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• I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

  Patrick Duffy

  College, Years, Acting

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• My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

  Glen Hansard

  Want, Quiet, Angry

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• Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.

  Morena Baccarin

  Mom, Home, Men

  "Homeland's Morena Baccarin Takes a Political Stand". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. May 22, 2013.

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• My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

  David Hyde Pierce

  Grandfather, Actors, Knows

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• When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

  Andy Andrews

  Mom, Cancer, Two

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• Growing up, Santa Claus would cover the presents with a white blanket, so when we'd wake up Christmas morning, we had to wait for my dad to do the big reveal of all the presents Santa brought.

  Martina McBride

  Morning, Growing Up, White

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• I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

  Hayley Atwell

  Aunt, Virginia, Cities

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• To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 and I see this random group of girls staring at me and taking pictures. But now I usually have my dad, who is a really tall and intimidating person with me, so he's kind of my bodyguard.

  Rebecca Black

  Girl, Forever, Groups

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

  Troian Bellisario

  Mom, Successful, Television

  Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2011.

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• My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

  Bob Balaban

  Children, Grandmother, Russia

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.

  Candace Cameron

  Mom, Next, Entertainment

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.

  Eric Bana

  Husband, Shooting, Location

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• I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.

  James Belushi

  Mom, Brother, Couple

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• My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.

  Katy B

  Beach, Boys, Soul

  "Katy B: Soundtrack of my life" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.

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• I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

  Laura Benanti

  Jobs, Thinking, Issues

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• I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

  Mario Balotelli

  Boys, Would Be, Ready

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• When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Mom, Horse, Kids

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• My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.

  Sean Covey

  Struggle, School, Differences

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• My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

  Danny Boyle

  Jobs, School, Noel

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• I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.

  Jencarlos Canela

  Mother, Media, Mail

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• It's nice when your dad can be your friend.

  Katie Cassidy

  Nice, Your Dad

  "David & Katie Cassidy". Interview with Blaine Zuckerman, people.com. September 7, 2009.

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• Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

  Dan Auerbach

  Parent, Rebel, Want

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