Dad Quotes

• I would tell people my dad was all the characters he's played in movies, because once you say he's a lawyer or something, they move on.

  

  John David Washington
  • People
  • Dad
  • Lawyer

• Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Labyrinth

• My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Dad

• I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Theatre

• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • Father
  • Religion

• My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Movies

• I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that I'm making excuses. I was always out and about and had a good time as a kid, so I've done alright.

  

  Danny Dyer
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

  

  Avicii
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.

  

  Mark Viduka
  • Good
  • Why
  • Humble

• I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.

  

  Vijay
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Son

• The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Mom

• I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Father

• I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Me

• Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Night

• Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.

  

  David Chang
  • Up
  • Why
  • Game

• I do have a son. He's out of school now. He never played football. And it had nothing to do with me. I was actually crushed that he didn't play football. I thought, 'Oh my God, this is awful.' My brothers all played football. My dad played football.

  

  Ann McKee
  • God
  • School
  • Football

• Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Dad
  • Model

• I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Road

• My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Same

• My dad always wanted to sail. They lived on a boat for eight years.

  

  Jeffrey Skoll
  • Dad
  • Boat

• My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

  

  Pete Cashmore
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Music
  • Brother
  • Movies

• My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

  

  Luke Benward
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Humble

• My dad's Irish, so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid, so it's not totally foreign to me.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Dad
  • Irish

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