Change theme

Supanet

it's an internet thing! ^{est 1999}

Famous Quotes

Back to Categories

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
- Branford Marsalis on Dad
My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.
- Kris Allen on Dad
My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.
- Paul McCartney on Dad
My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
- Dean Norris on Dad
My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.
- Amy Klobuchar on Dad
My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.
- Kay Bailey Hutchison on Dad
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
- Rainn Wilson on Dad
My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
- Samuel L. Jackson on Dad
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
- Anne M. Mulcahy on Dad
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
- Scott McCloud on Dad
My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?
- Bill Keller on Dad
My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.
- Thomas Jane on Dad
My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
- Scott McCloud on Dad
My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
- Bob Balaban on Dad
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
- Maya Lin on Dad
My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.
- Juliana Hatfield on Dad
My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.
- Seann William Scott on Dad
My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
- Mike Myers on Dad
My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.
- Jonny Lang on Dad
My dad was good with actions.
- William Shatner on Dad
My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.
- Albert Finney on Dad
My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.
- Jason Gann on Dad
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
- Al Pacino on Dad
My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.
- Trey Parker on Dad
My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.
- Dylan McDermott on Dad
My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
- Jim Carrey on Dad
My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
- Tiger Woods on Dad
My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.
- Bobby Orr on Dad
My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
- Candace Parker on Dad
My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.
- Glen Hansard on Dad
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
- Robert Carlyle on Dad
My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.
- Moon Unit Zappa on Dad
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 on Dad
My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
- Christian Bale on Dad
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
- Harry Connick, Jr. on Dad
My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.
- Dave Brubeck on Dad
My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?
- Henny Youngman on Dad
My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.
- Paul Thomas Anderson on Dad
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
- Dan Fogelberg on Dad
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
- Rachel Hunter on Dad
My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.
- Andy Serkis on Dad
My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
- Nancy Kerrigan on Dad
My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.
- Sherri Shepherd on Dad
My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.
- Chris Hemsworth on Dad
My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.
- Jon Lovitz on Dad
My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.
- Katy Perry on Dad
My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
- Carlos Santana on Dad
My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
- Gary Sheffield on Dad
My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
- Natalie Portman on Dad
My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.
- Rory McIlroy on Dad

11 12 13 14 15 16 17