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David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.
Amy Sedaris
Actress · American · b. 1961
My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.
Albert Finney
Actor · British · b. 1936
My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.
Skeet Ulrich
Actor · American · b. 1970
My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.
Dennis Wilson
Musician · American · 1944 – 1983
One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
David Duchovny
Actor · American · b. 1960
I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.
Wynton Marsalis
Musician · American · b. 1961
I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
Denzel Washington
Actor · American · b. 1954
My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.
Warren Zevon
Musician · American · 1947 – 2003
My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
Olivier Martinez
Actor · French · b. 1966
My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
Jim Carrey
Comedian · Canadian · b. 1962
My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
Damon Wayans
Comedian · American · b. 1960
Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.
Lauren Graham
Actress · American · b. 1967
My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.
Miley Cyrus
Musician · American · b. 1992
My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.
Jayne Meadows
Actress · American · b. 1920
I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.
Michael Bergin
Actor · American · b. 1969
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Musician · American · b. 1972
My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.
Kim Wilde
Musician · English · b. 1960
My father was absent and he was a hero to me.
Greta Scacchi
Actress · Italian · b. 1960
My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.
Robbie Coltrane
Actor · Scottish · b. 1950
Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
Beau Bridges
Actor · American · b. 1941
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.
Emeril Lagasse
Celebrity · American · b. 1959
Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.
Norma McCorvey
Celebrity · American · b. 1947
I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.
Jamie Redknapp
Athlete · English · b. 1973
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
Actress · American · b. 1978
I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
Kathleen Turner
Actress · American · b. 1954
I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
Mike Tyson
Athlete · American · b. 1966
My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor · b. 1974
The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.
Katie Price
Model · english · b. 1978
My father was gone when I was three years old.
Marc Wallice
Actor · American · b. 1959
One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
Camryn Manheim
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
Musician · American · b. 1960
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
Anna Lee
Actress · English · 1913 – 2004
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
Charley Pride
Athlete · American · b. 1938
My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.
Dominic Chianese
Actor · American · b. 1931
My father was an all-American football player.
Edwin Moses
Athlete · American · b. 1955
My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.
Jessica Hahn
There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in.
Leslie Nielsen
Actor · Canadian · 1926 – 2010
I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
Gene Tierney
Actress · American · 1920 – 1991
My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.
Hermione Gingold
Actress · English · b. 1897
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
Halle Berry
Actress · American · b. 1968
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
Ron Wood
Musician · British · b. 1947
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
Shirley Manson
Musician · Scottish · b. 1966
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
Matthew Modine
As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
Christine Keeler
Model · English · b. 1942
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Bill Cosby
Comedian · American · b. 1937
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
Richard Marx
Musician · American · b. 1963
I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
Jackie Cooper
Actor · American · 1922 – 2011