Dad Quotes
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My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.
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My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
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My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.
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I think the model that I look at is someone like Jakob Dylan, whose dad is obviously every bit if not more famous than mine. He's a guy who sought to build a career on his own, doing something that's a little bit different than what his father does.
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My dad made a huge impact on me in terms of right and wrong.
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My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.
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A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet.
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My dad was working class.
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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.
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Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly alone in the house with her because my two older brothers were away at college. I was the man of the house, and she was the grieving woman.
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My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid. Be very afraid…
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We all understand genetics. You get your eyes from your dad, your mom's nose, there's nothing you can do about that. But your spiritual genetics you can choose, pick, embrace and commit to. That's what I did.
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I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.
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I really loved to sing all the time, and I was constantly entertaining. Finally, my dad saw an article in the local newspaper in Phoenix, and it was for a children's theater, an audition for 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
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My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.
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I think pressure is good. Just watching my brother and my dad be professional athletes, I think pressure has driven them and has caused them to excel more.
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My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.
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I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to.
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I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
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Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.
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I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.
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I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
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Nat was my hero right from the very beginning. My dad brought his music into the house and played it over and over again.
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A movie that makes me cry every time is 'Billy Elliot.' That scene where he's dancing in the hall, and his dad walks in. And the first time his dad can see how amazing he is dancing, but he's so conflicted with kind of his own feelings towards it. Oh, it's so emotional.
