Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Beckett

Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

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.

Nate Ruess

My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the Pinkerton tour, and Pinkerton is the reason why Im doing this.

Nat Wolff

I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

Keith Carradine

I changed my major to English literature, which was on the advice of my father. I finally said, "You know, Dad, to heck with it: I'm just going to be an actor. But I'm going to go to school." And he said, "Well, if you're going to go to school, then major in English literature. Those are the tools you are going to be working with as a man who's going to be acting in English, one would assume."

Katherine Jenkins

In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I've been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me.

Kate Burton

I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.

Kate Fleetwood

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

Kate Clinton

[On being lesbian:] One pointer: don't come out to your dad in a moving vehicle.

Keith Thibodeaux

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other,

It's my passion. My dad taught me how to do it in the seventh grade and it's something I just love to do.

Dad yelled pretty loud at halftime. It was intense.

Jamie Kennedy

Dad was the one that went further, he didn't make the Olympic team, but I think he was trying out for it.

Dad wasn't a one-hit wonder, but he never had another moment like that.

Dad wasn't a daredevil, but he lived his life to the fullest.

Tony Scott

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.

Judy Woodruff

Dad was also a deeply unabashedly religious man.

Dad tends to be more low maintenance than Mom,

Henry Garza

Dad started playing when he was 8. I've been playing since I was 4 years old and started writing songs when I was about 5. Same thing with Jojo. He was 5 or 6 when he picked up the guitar.

Courtney Barnett

Dad sometimes sends me texts saying, 'Just heard you on the radio, thumbs up', or whatever. So that's pretty cute.

Dads come home at night and don't experience the same daytime issues raising a disabled child. They want information on how to be a good parent.

Dad recognized the early signs of hypothermia and told him to get out.

Dad never talked about Wyoming much and I so wish he had talked to me about it more.

Tommy Bowden

Dad is 76. He takes naps during the game, so he might miss something.

Ridley Scott

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

Dad endorsed my learning to fly so he would have a live-in pilot, one he could get in touch with at any time.

Daddy took it the hardest. It hurt him a lot. We just wanted them to be happy. They were good friends at the end.

Daddy said those things wouldn't lead to anything.

Dennis Brown

Daddy always said about an inch a week would be perfect. So we've got a ways to go.

Jack Carter

Dad didn't tell me anything that he didn't tell Wolf Blitzer, or wherever it was on the news. He's been pretty open about what he said and didn't tell me anything special.

Dad and I work pretty close. He has a good judge of character. I don't think he's been disappointed many times.