Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Pullman

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 Kreutzmann

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

Bill Keller

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

Beyonce Knowles

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Eddie Martinez

Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.

Eddie Marsan

When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

Eddie Murphy

My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.

Ed Begley, Jr.

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

David Hyde Pierce

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

David Hyde Pierce

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?

Nell Newman

My dad hates doing PR, so I volunteered to do this for him.

Nell Newman

I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.

Nell Newman

Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'

Liam Aiken

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.

Bartolo Colon

When I was just a year old, my dad was always talking about Nolan Ryan, ... He is my favorite player of all time, so it is a very special feeling to do it as an Angel.

Steve Alford

When I was a freshman and sophomore, I got booed every time I was put in the game. Then, in my junior and senior years, my dad got booed every time he took me out.

Michael Leunig

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

When we got home from that race that night, Rick wrote on the computer, 'Dad, when I run it feels like my disability disappears.' So, that was a very powerful message to me.

Billy Ray Cyrus

I'm pretty laidback as a dad anyway. I just trust her so much. She has a great head on her shoulders and she makes pretty good decisions most of the time. She even has enough common sense that if she makes a bad one she makes adjustments and knows that's what life is. It's a day-by-day, step-by-step journey through life, as she says in the movie.

Billy Sherwood

I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.

Billy Sherwood

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

Bill Nighy

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

Benjamin Walker

My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.

Chad Smith

I'm being a dad and a good husband.

Cat Deeley

The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding.

Carre Otis

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

Kenneth Choi

My dad does watch my work now. My parents watch everything I'm on. I think the first time they saw something was 'Captain America,' and he called me, and he was so elated.

Kenneth Choi

I told my extremely conservative, uber-traditional Korean father, 'Hey, Dad, I know what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to be an actor.'

Roberto Alomar

When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and I wanted to be just like my dad.

Don Cheadle

Kids clearly help center you because you can't impress your kids. People are like, "Oh, are they so excited because you're Ironman?" My kids couldn't care less. They like it when I hang out and play dad. I impress them by playing video games with them and doing well. Your kids humble you.

Djimon Hounsou

I wanna begin saying a story about my son. I have a four-year old son who loves superheroes from Spider-Man to Iron Man to Batman. He's got all the costumes. One day he looks at me and says 'Dad, I want to be light-skinned so I could be Spider-Man. Spider-Man has light skin.' That was sort of a shock. This is why I am excited to be a part of the Marvel Universe, so I could be hopefully provide that diversity in the role of the superhero.

Dhani Harrison

My dad was my hero, my best friend.

Dhani Harrison

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.