My Dad Quotes - Page 26

• I was raised by a single dad, so I've always just kind of liked "guys" stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.

  Aisha Tyler

  Dad, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.

  Aisha Tyler

  Dad, Teenager, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do. But I got fired as a secretary, and then I started studying, I started doing it just to earn money. And it took me a long time to learn to love it. And what I loved was telling a story. I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. I discovered in the process that it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and learn to see through many other people's eyes.

  Jane Fonda

  Dad, Home, Eye

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". Interview by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course I'll do that as well." But I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical and maybe the odd episode of [U.K. '80s TV drama] Casualty. My backup plan was to do something with children, to start a nursery school or work with underprivileged kids. And I still dream of maybe doing that in some way. I've always got children in my house, always.

  Kate Winslet

  Dream, Children, Dad

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.

  Taryn Manning

  Dad, Choices, Confusing

  "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

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• I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.

  Rosario Dawson

  Mom, Dad, Father

  "Rosario Dawson Talks GIMME SHELTER, Coming Full Circle Since Her Debut in KIDS, Responding to the Screenplay, and Collaborating with Vanessa Hudgens". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 22, 2014.

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• I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Growing Up, Dad, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

  Eliza Coupe

  Dad, Team, School

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

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• My dad, like, he's the most trusting human in the world.

  Miley Cyrus

  Dad, World, Humans

  "My Oh Miley!" by Ronan Farrow, www.wmagazine.com. February 3, 2014.

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• My dad used to tell me, 'Check the price, son.' Check the price, kids, check the price because there is a price to be paid for whatever you do in life, whether it is good or it is bad. Before you do something, ask yourself is it worth the price you have to pay?

  Larry Holmes

  Dad, Kids, Son

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• I remember learning to drive on my dad's lap. Did you guys ever do that? He'd work the brakes. I'd work the wheel. Then I went to take the driver's test and sat on the examiner's lap. I failed the exam. But he still writes to me. That's the really nice part.

  Garry Shandling

  Dad, Nice, Writing

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• I don't know any woman in France who doesn't talk to firemen and smile at them, because they're always so sweet, and they're wearing those tight pants. Even my dad looks at their ass when they walk down the street!

  Julie Delpy

  Sweet, Dad, Tight Pants

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• I come from a different generation from my Dad.

  George W. Bush

  Dad, Different, Generations

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• I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

  Elaine Stritch

  Dad, Jail, Long

  "The Way We Live Now: 2-24-02: Questions For Elaine Stritch; Of A Certain Age". Interview with Liz Welch, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2002.

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• My dad is my dad. I love him, and I realize that he's as famous as he is. Of course, I don't look at him like everybody else does. Because I know his little faults, I know his weaknesses. Nobody's perfect. But he's my dad. Just like your dad is to you.

  Laila Ali

  Dad, I Love Him, Perfect

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• See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.

  Steve Irwin

  Dad, Hero, Jacques Cousteau

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• My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.

  Neil Young

  Mom, Dad, Sky

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• My mom was more into the yelling. She was the enforcer. She was the one that laid down the law. My dad made up the rules, but my mom laid down the law. It's not her words, it's her tone that sticks with me.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Mom, Dad, Yelling

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• Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday."
  And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house.
  And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

  Steve Wozniak

  Dad, School, House

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• God brought me to Himself at about the age of 4. My parents were devout believers and my Dad was in Bible College at the time. I remember hearing the gospel in Sunday School and I talked to my Mom about it one night before bed. It was clear to me that I was a sinner and I was not going to heaven if I died without accepting Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross for me. I was brought to Christ out of fear of going to hell. I didn't want to go there if I died and there was only one other choice in my mind as a 4 year old. I wanted to go to heaven. It was and is that simple.

  Ben Zobrist

  Mom, Jesus, Dad

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• My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, First Love, Thinking

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because he'd have ended up a dead musician, with all the crazy stuff they did on Rush Street back in the day.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, Crazy, War

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

  Kim Basinger

  Hurt, Dad, Thinking

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• My dad worked very hard for the money he made, and my mom worked very hard to keep this household up and running and all the kids fed and everything. And she did it in a brilliant fashion. They both did. In fact, the work ethic, to me, is so important in this life.

  Kim Basinger

  Mom, Running, Fashion

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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