Father Quotes

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.

Anne Heche
- Up
- She
- Mother
During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

Marlee Matlin

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

Tamsin Greig
- Mother
- Father
My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me.

Lupita Nyong'o
- School
- High
- Father
I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.

Britt Ekland
- Money
- Value
- Grandparents
The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.

Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
- Music
- America
- Age
Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

Mary Stuart Masterson
- Up
- Good
- Writing
My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

Jayne Meadows
- Good
- Father
- Drama