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Dad Quotes

My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

– Al Franken

David and Dad didn’t get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn’t going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they’re like best friends.

– Amy Sedaris

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

– Bertrand Russell

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

– Carre Otis

My dad always said that 90 percent of marital problems could be solved by getting your blood sugar up, and he’s right! So I would say pick a partner who’s forgiving when you have low blood sugar and threaten to drive your car through your shared home.

– Casey Wilson

My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family – a lot of Spanish speakers in the family.

– Cary Fukunaga

Early in my career, I got roles that demanded that I be fit to carry off the angry young man look. Of course, I’m a fitness freak, and that’s something I picked up from my dad.

– Akkineni Nagarjuna

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs – where he tries desperately to be a ‘TV Dad,’ to give advice and it’s so pat it becomes ridiculous.

– Atom Egoyan

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

– Adrien Brody

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school – he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

– Bob Balaban

I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.

– Brian J. White

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

– Arthur Darvill

My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really – I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the ‘Red Compilation,’ which wasn’t like a proper album, I thought, ‘music was more than I had ever thought it was before.’

– Andrew Dost

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that’s sort of our bonding – anything athletic, anything sports related.

– Alyson Stoner

My dad didn’t want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he’s a retired Southern Baptist minister.

– Aaron Paul

My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in ‘G.I. Joe’ and ‘Transformers’ and Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy Smurf, so I grew up with the best bed time stories ever.

– Ashley Bell

My dad, he is such a soft man. Even if he has these opinions about my boyfriends, he will be the sweetest guy. He will make you feel like you’re fascinating and awesome, even if he doesn’t like you that much.

– Amanda Seyfried

My dad’s not here, but he’s watching in heaven.

– Bubba Watson

I just always really wanted to swim. It was always a family thing: dad obviously swam, and my sister did, too. And mum used to come along to meets. They had to drag me out of the pool – so there was never any pressure on me to swim. It was just something I loved doing.

– Aimee Willmott

At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn’t as important as how my kids feel about me. That’s how I’m going to measure my success – not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?

– Alberto Gonzales

My mum and dad aren’t together, but she plays a massive part in my life. We have deep conversations: I tell her where I need support, where I feel she’s lacking, and I support her with whatever she needs. I understand she won’t be here forever, and I want no regrets.

– Anthony Joshua

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908… his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children – in the backroom all together – and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

– Bob Balaban

People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug – and I inherited it.

– Ben Foster

I don’t want my dad to say, ‘My daughter is an actress on a TV show.’ I want him to say, ‘My daughter cares about people.’ I would love to know that I’m a role model in Hollywood.

– AnnaLynne McCord

My dad was a great dad.

– Bijou Phillips

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.

– Al Franken

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.

– Bill Gates

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.

– Charlie Sheen

My dad’s a worker, an electrician, a bog standard job. Nothing glamorous like a footballer, but yet he still provided me with what I needed.

– Ashley Thomas

I promised my daughter I’d name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, ‘Dad, what about us?’ I’m gonna have to open four restaurants!

– Buddy Valastro

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