Dad Quotes
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My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.
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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.
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When I lost my dad, there was no one there to be the disciplinarian, and we kind of ran amok.
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My dad put up a basket on my street, and I was practicing every day. It was just nuts. But I miss it. Whenever I see a ball, I get itchy!
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My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
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Unless you sit down and talk to your dad and say, 'Why weren't you there?' and he says, 'I'm going to really tell you the truth,' then you won't know.
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My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.
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The big things that I've learnt from my dad is that you can just say what you want to say.
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My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.
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One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart.
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When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me.
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As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.
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I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
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I don’t play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox.
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Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
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My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.
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Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.
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Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.
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I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.
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I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.
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Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.
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My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.
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My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.' My mom and dad are both in theater, so I grew up acting and being a little theater brat as well.
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David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.
