Dad Quotes

I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.

My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.

My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.

My dad died of a stroke.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad.

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.