Dad Quotes - Page 20

• I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

  Ryan Giggs

  Stars, Real, Hero

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• My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

  Tom Glazer

  Epidemics, Years, Listening

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• My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.

  Zach Galifianakis

  People, Laughing, Jokes

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2007.

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• My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

  C. Thomas Howell

  Clever, Guy, My Dad

  "C. Thomas Howell on The Outsiders, blackface, and how Marlboros got him cast in E.T". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.

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• My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.

  Ian Harding

  Mom, Army, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!

  Sarah Hyland

  Matter, Kidneys, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Real, People, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Children, Years, Lines

  "Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins Interview THOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

  Dhani Harrison

  Rebel, My Family, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

  Dhani Harrison

  School, Years, Sage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'

  Dhani Harrison

  Play, Age, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

  Dhani Harrison

  Stars, Want, Able

  "A family affair" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

  Dhani Harrison

  Iron, Saws, Kind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

  Dhani Harrison

  Couple, Japan, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

  Dhani Harrison

  Trying, Playing Music, Lessons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

  Dhani Harrison

  Guitar, Sound, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

  Dhani Harrison

  Ambition, Mean, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

  Jane Horrocks

  Mom, Baby, Memories

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• I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.

  Justin Halpern

  Book, Giving, Interesting

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• My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

  Lianne La Havas

  Grandparent, Childhood, Greek

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• Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

  Mark Hoppus

  Kids, Parent, Young

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• Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.

  Rebecca Hall

  Father, Ideas, Theatre

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

  Sally Hawkins

  Brother, Inspiration, Childhood

  "Happy-Go-Lucky Interview". Interview with Anna Smith, www.ign.com. April 18, 2008.

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• My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

  Thierry Henry

  Done, Want, Taught

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• My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

  Tony Hale

  Appreciation, Art, Grandfather

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