Dad Quotes

• My mom lost her dad at a very young age, and has this sort of belief system of, you know, "If there's something that you want to do, if there's something that means a lot to you, do it now."

  

  Emma Stone
  • Lost
  • Dad
  • Mom

• My dad worked - f - k if I know - seven jobs? He painted a house. He would deliver toilets. He drove a cab, delivered pizzas. Whatever he could do, he did.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Dad
  • Jobs

• There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • People
  • Comedy
  • President

• My dad did a radio show. I was on it when I was seven. So now you know that the showbiz bug bit me really early.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Dad

• Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Art

• We read about secret lives that people have on the Internet, or alternate lives of a serial killer where the whole family didn't know that their dad or their brother or their child was that. There are all the things in our heart that no one really knows, and I thought that that was interesting territory to explore.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • People
  • Children
  • Heart

• My dad is a marketing mastermind.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Dad
  • Marketing
  • Mastermind

• I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.

  

  Mordecai Brown
  • Dad
  • Baseball
  • Catch

• My Dad wanted me to be able to play with him and my brothers. I was the only girl!

  

  Susan Davis
  • Dad
  • Play
  • Brothers

• When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to his friends. They would laugh and laugh. I realize now the laugh was pure shock value, but it felt really good, and I've been chasing it ever since.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Comedy
  • Teach
  • Laughing

• I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.

  

  Stephen Mangan
  • Actors
  • Growing Up
  • Builder

• I started wrestling when I was five. I lost my first match and cried in front of my dad, and I never wanted to do that again.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Lost
  • Dad
  • Wrestling

• And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Said
  • Step
  • Hardest

• Who ever he is, I agree with your mother," said Dad as he entered the kitchen. "Stay away from him. Stay away from them all until you're of marrying age. Once you reach a nice, mature fifty-four, gentlemen callers will be welcomed here.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Nice

• And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Voice
  • Said
  • Sound

• My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no" and imparting Buddhist precepts.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Dad
  • Catholic
  • Buddhist

• We grew up as this family of deniers. And people who knew us for years were stunned when "The Great Santini" came out because we had this appearance of being this happy, large, smiling family. We were taught to smile, put the best face forward. And so when the book ended up - Dad swatting us around the room, no one believed me.

  

  Terry Gross
  • People
  • Book
  • Faces

• Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.

  

  William P. Young
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Father

• Dad nods, looks me dead in the eyes; slowly and regretfully, he banishes all the smiling and joking from his face, and for once he's just my dad, watching his son who has fallen so low.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Son
  • Eye
  • Faces

• I do have a natural sense for business, which I think I get from my Dad.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Dad
  • Natural

• At that point, I thought probably special effects, something like that, and indeed, the early days when I was working with my dad, after I left school, I only went to less than one year of college, and then I was transferring, and then I delayed my transfer, and I did a movie, and then another movie, and then I never finished college.

  

  Brian Henson
  • School
  • College
  • Effects

• My mom and my dad never pushed me into performing. They never prohibited me from trying anything, or being anything. They never restricted me in any way. For which I'll be forever grateful.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Performing

• Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Dad
  • Wanted

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