My Dad Quotes - Page 32

• As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

  David Cassidy

  Dad, Father, Son

  "David Cassidy: My family values". Interview with Juliet Rix, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.

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• My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.

  Ryan Giggs

  Dad, Rugby League, Watches

  "When Esquire met Ryan Giggs". www.esquire.co.uk. February 15, 2010.

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• When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.

  Leona Lewis

  Dad, School, Car

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

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• I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

  Rob Reiner

  Growing Up, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could make my dad laugh uncontrollably. And whenever we had parties, some of the funniest people of my generation - whether it was Billy Crystal or Robin Williams or John Belushi - would be doing shtick.

  Rob Reiner

  Dad, Party, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

  Matt Barr

  Football, Dad, Athlete

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.

  Aisha Tyler

  Dad, Teenager, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do. But I got fired as a secretary, and then I started studying, I started doing it just to earn money. And it took me a long time to learn to love it. And what I loved was telling a story. I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. I discovered in the process that it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and learn to see through many other people's eyes.

  Jane Fonda

  Dad, Home, Eye

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". Interview by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course I'll do that as well." But I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical and maybe the odd episode of [U.K. '80s TV drama] Casualty. My backup plan was to do something with children, to start a nursery school or work with underprivileged kids. And I still dream of maybe doing that in some way. I've always got children in my house, always.

  Kate Winslet

  Dream, Children, Dad

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.

  Taryn Manning

  Dad, Choices, Confusing

  "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

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• My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

  Eliza Coupe

  Dad, Team, School

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

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• My dad, like, he's the most trusting human in the world.

  Miley Cyrus

  Dad, World, Humans

  "My Oh Miley!" by Ronan Farrow, www.wmagazine.com. February 3, 2014.

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• Everybody's a racist. It's the one human trait that makes us all exactly the same. Deep down, we only like people who are exactly like us. And it doesn't matter. White. Black. Red. Yellow. Purple, uh oh, the purple people, are the worst. Man. All prejudiced and birth marky. But, we've got to learn to get past our differences. I learned that at the museum of tolerance. After my dad beat the crap out of a guy over a parking spot.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Past, Men

  "Titus / Too Damn Good". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I remember learning to drive on my dad's lap. Did you guys ever do that? He'd work the brakes. I'd work the wheel. Then I went to take the driver's test and sat on the examiner's lap. I failed the exam. But he still writes to me. That's the really nice part.

  Garry Shandling

  Dad, Nice, Writing

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• I don't know any woman in France who doesn't talk to firemen and smile at them, because they're always so sweet, and they're wearing those tight pants. Even my dad looks at their ass when they walk down the street!

  Julie Delpy

  Sweet, Dad, Tight Pants

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• I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

  Elaine Stritch

  Dad, Jail, Long

  "The Way We Live Now: 2-24-02: Questions For Elaine Stritch; Of A Certain Age". Interview with Liz Welch, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2002.

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• My dad is my dad. I love him, and I realize that he's as famous as he is. Of course, I don't look at him like everybody else does. Because I know his little faults, I know his weaknesses. Nobody's perfect. But he's my dad. Just like your dad is to you.

  Laila Ali

  Dad, I Love Him, Perfect

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• My mom was more into the yelling. She was the enforcer. She was the one that laid down the law. My dad made up the rules, but my mom laid down the law. It's not her words, it's her tone that sticks with me.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Mom, Dad, Yelling

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• Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday."
  And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house.
  And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

  Steve Wozniak

  Dad, School, House

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• God brought me to Himself at about the age of 4. My parents were devout believers and my Dad was in Bible College at the time. I remember hearing the gospel in Sunday School and I talked to my Mom about it one night before bed. It was clear to me that I was a sinner and I was not going to heaven if I died without accepting Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross for me. I was brought to Christ out of fear of going to hell. I didn't want to go there if I died and there was only one other choice in my mind as a 4 year old. I wanted to go to heaven. It was and is that simple.

  Ben Zobrist

  Mom, Jesus, Dad

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• My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, First Love, Thinking

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

  Kim Basinger

  Hurt, Dad, Thinking

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

  Bill Gates

  Growing Up, Dad, Volunteer

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• I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows.

  Jason Wu

  Dad, India, Germany

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.

  Candice Accola

  Country, Growing Up, Dad

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