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Dad Quotes

I like the Dodgers because my dad does – wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.

– Mamie Gummer

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don’t know what it’s like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

– Daniel Radcliffe

I love my dad so much. I don’t have that cool thing where I have dad issues.

– Max Winkler

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.

– Domhnall Gleeson

I’m just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

– Glenn Frey

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I’ve spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

– Eleanor Tomlinson

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers’ meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that’s very exciting.

– Dominik Garcia-Lorido

Actually, a lot of my influences were horn players. I really liked Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Miles Davis – people like that. My dad had a lot of those records. So when I started playing jazz primarily, it wasn’t jazz guitar that I was listening to.

– Mary Halvorson

My dad couldn’t connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I’d see Spielberg’s people reading scripts. I was like, ‘That’s what I want to be when I grow up.’

– Doug Liman

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I’ve always been Chelsea.

– Eric Bristow

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.

– Domenico Dolce

My dad and I had been close – he called me Tuyet Bang, Vietnamese for ‘avalanche,’ because of my nonstop energy. I took a lot from him, like being a risk taker, and I know how much he loved my mother.

– Michelle Phan

My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven’t been there for him… and that’s sad.

– Daniel Baldwin

And of course I’ve got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I’m now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You’re suddenly hip.

– Gary Oldman

When you’re nearing 35, going, ‘Hey Dad, I can’t make these payments,’ just isn’t cool.

– Eleanor Mondale

I’m a father of four so whenever I’m not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don’t do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

– Christopher Judge

My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.

– Matthew Morrison

My dad had been an actor… not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

– David Hyde Pierce

I caught the acting bug from my dad.

– Finn Wittrock

Listen to your mom and dad! They are almost always right, especially about boys.

– Melissa Ordway

I guess I figured out my dad was a fight coordinator pretty early, because I always saw him running into walls and stuff and nobody got mad at him, but it took me a lot longer to figure out what Mom did, because it was usually stuff on the telephone.

– Devon Bostick

My dad is into movies, and they let me watch movies. I was obsessed with Monty Python when I was in preschool – I don’t know why.

– Charlie Tahan

My career plan at this point is ‘Ice Age 5′ through ’10,’ and even ’12,’ and ‘Spider Man’ – you know, basically I’d be Emma Stone’s dad for the rest of my career. I really don’t have any problem doing that.

– Denis Leary

Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that’s why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.

– David Chang

Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, ‘I’m really a dad.’

– Dana Carvey

I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing – my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.

– Gary Kemp

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

– Pope John XXIII

My dad dying was actually a reason for me to stop music properly for about a year, because he was a big supporter. All I wanted to do was write a song about him and, you know, when something’s too fresh, you can’t quite word it.

– Gin Wigmore

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don’t think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

– Nick Clegg

I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big – my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.

– Frank Thomas

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