Dad Quotes

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.

I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best.

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

The child is father of the man.

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.

I'll back up anything my dad says.

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.