Dad Quotes

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls.

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. 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.

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'

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.