I’d seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was – that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he’s always my favourite person in the movie. – Domhnall Gleeson
People have told me to change it over the years, but my dad is always saying, ‘Never change your name!’ My middle name is O’Hara, so it’s a pretty epic name. Emily O’Hara Ratajkowski. – Emily Ratajkowski
My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is an actress. My granddad was a cameraman. They would’ve been surprised if I wanted to be a dentist or something like that. – Charlie Rowe
My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, ‘OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it’s like.’ I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing ‘Memory.’ I was terrible. Terrible. – Emilia Clarke
My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn’t a man made a big difference. – Dave Mustaine
My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys’ hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there. – Eliza Coupe
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there’s a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road. – Eric Stonestreet
I have a theory that I really want my kids to know – the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work. – Eric Bana
My dad used to tell me, ‘Look, son, opportunity does not come knocking.’ It’s usually running down the street, and you have to chase it down, you have to tackle it, and then you have to hang on to it. – David A. Clarke, Jr.
Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of ‘Dad’s Army.’ My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who’s next? Will it be someone I can’t stand? – Matt Roper
I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with. – Dolly Parton
All kids want from their dad is for them to be around – and to show up when they say they’re going to show up. – Nicole Ari Parker
If a dad does his job, we don’t need prisons, we don’t need jails. That’s what I saw growing up. – Mike Singletary
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. – David Crystal
You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my mom used to teach piano lessons when she was younger. So I can play some piano, play a little drums, and fake the bass – but banjo, mandolin, and guitar are my thing. – Charlie Worsham
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad’s way: you got a job and paid your way. – Gary Numan
Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school. – Mia Love
When I was a kid I went and saw Bill Cosby with my dad, and I remember sitting there and laughing so hard. – Dave Coulier
In the ‘Garnethill’ trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O’Donnell’s dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they’re middle-class – they’re just working class because they speak with accents. – Denise Mina
I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, ‘Son, be an architect,’ and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect. – Max Walker
It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I’m going to make money doing this thing I enjoy. – Paul Giamatti
The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, ‘You saved my dad’s life.’ – Dick Cavett
My dad taught me really early so I could take a lot of pressure off my elbow. Because the way I throw it, it doesn’t crank up my elbow like everyone else’s curveballs. – Drew Pomeranz
I was homeless for about 8 months, I refused to live with my dad or anyone for that matter. So I stayed somewhere that had no hot water, ever, no heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own. – Eric West
I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids. – Dana Carvey
My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music. – Fleur East
Where I come from, you don’t really talk about how much you’re earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I’m certainly not going to tell the world. I’m doing well. – Paul McCartney
My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad’s union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege. – Ezra Koenig
