Dad Quotes
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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
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I went to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania like my dad did. I even gave the graduation speech at Wharton, which is what my dad did. I wrote the speech.
Aaron Karo
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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
Wyclef Jean
Fugees
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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
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I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'
Helen McCrory
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My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.
Paul Lynde
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I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don't see an end in sight.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.
Sarah Dessen
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My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.
Chad Channing
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Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.
Sarah Dessen
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The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.
Michael Ian Black
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I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.
Seth MacFarlane
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And it was a whole lot of fun, and in many ways, what we've done with the show is just taken that part of my early memories of visiting my dad, shooting with the Muppets, and taking that and making a show that's really an expansion of that and presenting a show that's all that.
Brian Henson
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I'm a have-a-go dad. I like babies.
Ben Miller
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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
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My dad took me to my first movie.
Steven Spielberg
