Ben Barnes Quotes

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

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• Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Dad
  • Always
  • Dance

• After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Dad
  • Jesus

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Dad
  • Choice
  • Finding

• 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 Marsan
  • House
  • Parents
  • Man

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dad

• My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Funny

• For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • House
  • Dad

• I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Good
  • Job
  • Dad

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Dad

• Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Energy
  • Dad

• My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Want
  • Dad
  • Bible

• I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Teach

• I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Trying
  • Dad
  • Thought

• My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also old R&B and Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin. But, you know, I had rock phases and liked more modern R&B acts. I've always listened to all kinds of music, and I like all kinds of music.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music
  • Country
  • Dad

• I was lucky. A lot of people have that. People that don't tell you what you want to hear, but what's best for you. I was blessed with great friends. I was always blessed that way. My dad always kept good people around me. I just got lucky. Because of the spotlight you're in, people are scared to tell you otherwise.

  

  Kevin Love
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.

  

  Anthony Evans
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Figuring

• I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Pink

• I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Man
  • Hair
  • Tall

• My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • Dad