Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Brolin

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

Josh Brolin

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

Mojo Nixon

Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn.

Grant Bowler

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

Gary Kemp

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

In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

Jessica Simpson

What if I accidentally hit somebody? Because my dad took one of his friends golfing, and it was, like, one of his first times and he knocked out a duck. Like, I'm scared that's going to happen.

Jennie Garth

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Jennie Finch

I think that when young players really see their game rise next level, it's when practices are like competition and there's no separation there. Of course, there are adrenaline and the butterflies; you don't have that so much in practice. You want to fake yourself out and try to get them there because you want to be as close to that game mentality as you can when you step on that field every single day whether it's practice or in your backyard or down the street with your dad.

Jennifer Aniston

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

Jess Walter

I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

I don't mind talking about my dad because he's such a good dude.

Johnny Vegas

I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.

Hulk Hogan

I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.

Luke Walton

He always told us don't play because he played or because other people think we should play. If it's fun for us and if it's what we really want to do, then he'd say to work as hard as you can to be successful at it. He never was one of those dads who was on us all the time.

Her dad and I felt that if Morgan lived on a soccer field at least we could have it at home.

He plays football when it's football season. I mean, his dad (assistant John Vaughan) is the coach. But he loves wrestling.

Ian Hart

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

Ian Frazier

Cursing dads are terrifying, you know? Cursing dads are - I don't know why, but no. It just doesn't seem to me that that would be funny. I mean it might be - you could try it and see. I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

Hugh Laurie

Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours. I loved him in 'Dad's Army,' loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.

Hugh Laurie

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

Hugh Jackman

My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.

Hugh Jackman

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

Hugh Jackman

I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very ordered life. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car.

Hugh Jackman

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

Horatio Sanz

If I were a dad, I'd have my kids watch 'I Love Lucy' and 'The Honeymooners.'

Homer

I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my Dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four.

Jessica Simpson

I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.

Michelle Monaghan

I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.

Domhnall Gleeson

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.

I don't want to move. I want to stay here until I die. My mom and dad did. And I want to do the same thing.

Eric Bristow

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

Eoin Colfer

You guys looking for my dad? People are always, like, looking for him, and he's never around. Daddy is so not here. And I mean that literally and spiritually.