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Dad Quotes

My dad would always say, ‘What can you do to make the world a better place?’ Well, I can make people laugh.

– Jon Lovitz

Strangely enough, among my dad’s things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier – doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.

– Christopher Guest

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

– Ato Essandoh

My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.

– Andy Serkis

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it’s quite schizophrenic.

– Joel Kinnaman

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

– Ben E. King

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

– Al Jardine

I also turn down what’s probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

– Bill Pullman

I went to performing arts camp, secretly taking classes – I got the lead in the musical, and my dad was like, ‘Wait, I thought you were going here for music and knitting’.

– Billie Lourd

I was raised by extremely strict – but also extremely loving – Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood! I remember laughing constantly with my parents – my dad is a real character and very funny. I certainly did wish they allowed to me do more things!

– Amy Chua

When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing ‘Edelweiss’ because I knew it from the music box.

– Audra McDonald

When I first moved out to L.A., I was still 17. The deal with my dad was that I would be able to live out there if I were to treat my acting classes like college classes. So when I moved, that’s all I did: trained and auditioned.

– Brianna Hildebrand

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‘I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.’ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

– Bill Gates

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

– Brion James

I had Hallowe’en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

– Bat for Lashes

My mother had introduced me to a lot of my father’s friends because she believed that I would get to know the guy my dad was better through his friends than just in the hospital visits.

– Arlo Guthrie

My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you’re gonna do when you say you’re gonna do it.

– Bob Corker

My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don’t really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.

– Bella Thorne

My dad would always say, ‘Girl, you’ve been given gifts. Use them.’ And what he meant by that was, ‘Don’t just be successful. Don’t just use your talents for your own success. But make a difference with them. Do something significant.’ And when I put those two things together, it just causes me to not accept the status quo.

– Beth Brooke

I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can’t say I really remember too much about it.

– Adam Oates

My greatest dream is to work with my dad someday as an actress.

– Bryce Dallas Howard

I was always inundated with music, whether it be my mother’s favorites like Fleetwood Mac and Carole King and the Carpenters, or my dad’s jazz music.

– Andra Day

My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we’re purebred New Yorkers.

– Ansel Elgort

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

– Billy Baldwin

As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn’t, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.

– Brian J. White

I was raised by a single dad, and I’ve always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.

– Aisha Tyler

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad’s side.

– Bat for Lashes

My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he’s not paralyzed or anything, but he’s had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.

– Channing Tatum

My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn’t stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he’d impersonate me.

– Alison Goldfrapp

My sister is totally my dad’s daughter because she loves sports.

– Ashley Tisdale

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