Dad Quotes

• I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• 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.

  

  Keith Thibodeaux
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Christmas

• I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Music
  • Father
  • Singing

• I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood! I remember laughing constantly with my parents - my dad is a real character and very funny. I certainly did wish they allowed to me do more things!

  

  Amy Chua
  • Real
  • Character
  • Remember

• There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Good
  • Work
  • Home

• When I was young, my dad, a veteran who attended college on the GI Bill, lost his job at age 55 when the company he worked for was sold. My entire family pitched in - my mom took in sewing, and I got a minimum wage job after school.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Italian

• My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Son
  • Sad
  • Him

• I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

  

  Elizabeth Hurley
  • Children
  • Dad
  • Alone

• I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Dad

• I've always thought 'Southern Accents' would make an amazing country song. It's always spoken to me. I've always loved it. Every time I hear that song, it reminds me of my dad.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Time
  • Country
  • Song

• 'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Kids
  • Mom
  • Awesome

• My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Aunt

• I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Thought
  • Years
  • Bed

• I thought my dad was a scientist when I was young. Seriously. Because people would come up to me, and they would be like, 'Your dad is the smartest person that I've ever met.' And I was so young, so I'd be like, 'Well he just put me on a time out, so I don't agree.'

  

  Jaden Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My dad took me to see James Brown live, and that's so cool, cause I don't think many people my age can say they saw James Brown. I'm pretty proud of that. That's the thing about me that no one really knows. I had to have been 6 or 7, but I remember it vividly.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Live
  • Remember

• Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Taken

• I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Love

• I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Parents
  • Science
  • Seattle

• I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Life
  • Good
  • Kids

• My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Lawyer

• The Olympia was a really special place for me as a kid. I saw Dad perform there so many times, so it means a lot.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Dad

• My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'

  

  Mario Van Peebles
  • Life
  • Dad

• But you know, my mom having to go to the hospital seven times... like passed out because of pain... I wouldn't come home and sit with my family and be with my dad - I'd call someone up and... I'd go and get obliterated drunk and I'd go, like, on two-week benders.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

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