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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.

Amy Sedaris

Actress · American · b. 1961

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

Actress · American · b. 1961

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

Celebrity · American · b. 1959

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

Actor · American · b. 1959

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

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