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- A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'
- Michael Eisner on Dad
- A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
- Lenny Kravitz on Dad
- A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'
- Lewis Black on Dad
- A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
- Frank A. Clark on Dad
- A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
- Enid Bagnold on Dad
- A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
- Michael Bergin on Dad
- A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.
- Brandon Lee on Dad
- A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.
- Jason Ritter on Dad
- A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.
- Sofia Coppola on Dad
- A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.
- Jason Sudeikis on Dad
- A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.
- Sylvia Browne on Dad
- Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
- Angela Carter on Dad
- After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.
- Jenny Eclair on Dad
- All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.
- Hunter Hayes on Dad
- All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.
- Tiger Woods on Dad
- All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
- George Eliot on Dad
- Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.
- Christopher Walken on Dad
- Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.
- Joe Manganiello on Dad
- Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.
- Toni Braxton on Dad
- Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.
- Jamie Redknapp on Dad
- Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians.
- An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
- Publilius Syrus on Dad
- And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.
- Mike Myers on Dad
- And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.
- Wilt Chamberlain on Dad
- And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
- David Bowie on Dad
- And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.
- Paul Reiser on Dad
- And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself.
- Jennie Finch on Dad
- And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
- Jackson Browne on Dad
- And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.
- Angelina Jolie on Dad
- And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
- Gary Oldman on Dad
- And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.
- Sarah Silverman on Dad
- And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.
- Nigel Lythgoe on Dad
- And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.
- Dweezil Zappa on Dad
- Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
- Wade Boggs on Dad
- Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
- As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
- Taryn Manning on Dad
- As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.
- Peter Mullan on Dad
- As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
- Anthony Kiedis on Dad
- As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.
- David Cassidy on Dad
- As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.
- Zach Braff on Dad
- As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
- Christine Keeler on Dad
- As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
- Gloria Swanson on Dad
- As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
- David Crystal on Dad
- As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.
- Danny Bonaduce on Dad
- As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.
- James Ellroy on Dad
- As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.
- Phil Crane on Dad
- At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 magnum.
- Susana Martinez on Dad
- At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'
- Courteney Cox on Dad
- At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.
- John Denver on Dad
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