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- My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
- Broderick Crawford on Dad
- My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
- My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.
- Mickey Spillane on Dad
- My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
- Anthony Hopkins on Dad
- My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
- Beau Bridges on Dad
- My father was never anti-anything in our house.
- Errol Flynn on Dad
- My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
- Harry S. Truman on Dad
- My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.
- Jane Pauley on Dad
- My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.
- Marc Davis on Dad
- My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
- Damon Wayans on Dad
- My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
- Simon Newcomb on Dad
- My father was the quintessential husband and dad.
- Sidney Poitier on Dad
- My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
- Janis Joplin on Dad
- My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
- Gwyneth Paltrow on Dad
- My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
- Jeff Foxworthy on Dad
- My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
- Chief Joseph on Dad
- My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
- My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'
- Gayle King on Dad
- My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.
- Jamie Oliver on Dad
- My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
- Haley Reinhart on Dad
- My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.
- Hugh Jackman on Dad
- My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
- Boomer Esiason on Dad
- My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Dad
- My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls.
- Greg Kinnear on Dad
- My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
- Benicio Del Toro on Dad
- My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
- David Rockefeller on Dad
- My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.
- Chris Pine on Dad
- My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.
- My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!
- Josh Hartnett on Dad
- My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.
- My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.
- Hugh Jackman on Dad
- My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?
- Robbie Coltraine on Dad
- My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.
- Joey Lauren Adams on Dad
- My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
- Daniel Baldwin on Dad
- My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.
- David Miliband on Dad
- My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
- Candace Cameron Bure on Dad
- My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
- Mitt Romney on Dad
- My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.
- Dave Mustaine on Dad
- My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.
- Dominic Monaghan on Dad
- 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.
- Gwen Stefani on Dad
- My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.
- Tracy Austin on Dad
- My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.
- Chris Isaak on Dad
- My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.
- Rory McIlroy on Dad
- My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
- Larry Elder on Dad
- My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.
- Hunter Parrish on Dad
- My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
- Jennifer Garner on Dad
- My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
- Elvis Stojko on Dad
- My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.
- Albert Brooks on Dad
- My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.
- Shaun White on Dad
- My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.
- Isabelle Huppert on Dad
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