Dad Quotes

• There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Time
  • Working
  • Working Hard

• We'd just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I sung the harmony, and my sister Doris took the lead.

  

  George Jones Mr. President (band)
  • Together
  • Church
  • Sister

• My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Dad

• My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Up
  • Small
  • City

• Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt my dad's accomplishments in music should be better known, not just in a popular way, but better understood.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Up
  • Music
  • Popular

• I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Good
  • Great
  • Mom

• My dad was a congressman, and he taught me at a very early age, 'They voted for me, they view me as theirs, and I am.' Our family's phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Family
  • Age
  • Night

• I was always cycling for my dad. Then the coaches got bigger, and my results got better. Suddenly, the responsibility grows, and I'm doing it for somebody else, I'm doing it for a programme; I'm doing it for the country. I'm doing it for, like, everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Country
  • Responsibility
  • Better

• I think the most fun part about working on 'Good Luck Charlie' is spending time with everyone, honestly, because everybody on set is like my brother and sister and mom and dad. They're so fun to be around, so that's probably the best part about working there.

  

  Bradley Steven Perry
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fun

• But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

  

  Bob Balaban
  • School
  • Business
  • Baby

• One of the things that was probably to Dad's discredit was that he was never a fund-raiser. But he didn't live in an era of TV ads.

  

  Bob Latta
  • Live
  • Dad

• My dad is down there. He's the one who's calling the shots.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Dad
  • Calling

• I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that.

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I am an obsessive garage cleaner - my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same way, and now when I'm out there unearthing things in the garage, I realize I am becoming my dad!

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Father

• I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.

  

  Jasmine Guinness
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Childhood

• I didn't want to play the wife of some guy my dad's age.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Age
  • Guy
  • Wife

• Weirdly, my dad didn't want me to become an actor, he was always quite resistant to it. He told me as much many times. That just made it more attractive to me.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Dad

• I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When he had parties, my sisters always played piano, and my dad played banjo.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • House
  • Dad

• When our binoculars are focused on the dad as 'deadbeat,' it often even leads us to missing concrete cues a dad gives to show his desire to be involved.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Dad
  • Desire
  • Missing

• I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• My dad's one of my biggest heroes. I also think Paul Newman's an inspiration. I know a lot of people say that, but I love that he's a great role model and a humanitarian. I admire people who don't necessarily want to change the world, but try to make it a better environment.

  

  Alex Pettyfer
  • Environment
  • Model
  • Inspiration

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