Dad Quotes

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

You know, I'm just - I'm really happy for my dad.

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.

In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

My dad's not a big talker.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.

My dad, he's the rocker.

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.