My Dad Quotes - Page 33

• People make their life really hard. It was as simple as this: My parents went to church. My grandfather was a bishop. My mom sang in the choir, my dad played the keyboard, and my uncle played the drums. I was into playing the drums, so I played the drums a lot for my uncle, and it got to the point where I was pretty nice at playing the drums. And he let me play every Sunday so, to me, going to church was fun.

  Fetty Wap

  Mom, Uncles, Fun

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• I ain't going to lie: I was happy, man. Me and my sisters and my brother was mad cool. We all did the music thing. My dad had the keys to the church, so we would go over there and jam. So I just want my kids to have fun the right way. I want their type of trouble to be, like, "Aw, Dad, I locked the keys in the car." I don't want to hear about, "Oh, my friend just got shot."

  Fetty Wap

  Brother, Fun, Dad

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• If anybody normally has a 45 minute conference call about something, I'm 15 minutes late and then I'm out 15 minutes before everybody else, and I cut to the key information and I move on. I learned that from my dad and guys like Jason Blum, who know how to do that.

  Mark Duplass

  Dad, Moving, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• I really loved my dad. I was very, very close to my dad. He - you know, he was very, very nervous about my being an actor.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Dad, Actors, Nervous

  "Actor Jeffrey Tambor On 'Transparent': 'I Loved It From The Very Beginning'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, December 10, 2015.

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• My dad raced motocross back in the day, and I've always enjoyed watching it. That sport intrigues me.

  Virgil Green

  Sports, Dad, Back In The Day

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• I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me.

  Danny Burstein

  Dad, Book, Play

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I learned as a really young kid, when my dad was telling me one story and my mom was telling me another that, even as a 5-year-old boy, there was no way that both of these stories are true. Something in the middle is true, and I have to figure out what it is, what the truth is, and I never did quite figure that out.

  Moshe Kasher

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business - my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.

  Geena Davis

  Mom, Dad, College

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I thought I would like to be an actor. I didn't have any idea what it was to be an actor. None. I'd wanted to be either an actor or a sculptor, which are both essentially the same thing. That's how it all started for me.

  Donald Sutherland

  Dad, Ideas, Actors

  "Donald Sutherland on 'Forsaken', Working with His Son for the First Time, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I was introduced to skateboarding through my father. He was a surfer back in the 50's & 60's in Hawaii, where my parents grew up. They later moved to California and I was born. Skateboarding was the thing for surfers here in California in the 60's and my Dad immediately made me a homemade board.

  Christian Hosoi

  Dad, Father, California

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Gerry Lopez was a famous surfer back then and his board had a lightning bolt in the in the middle, so my Dad made me a surf/skateboard with a lightning bolt on it.

  Christian Hosoi

  Dad, Lightning, Boards

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Since my Dad was an artist, I grew up around art shows and openings and that had a big impact on me as well, especially in L.A. So skateboarding was the cool thing to do and I was totally attracted to it and once I saw the magazines... that was it, I knew this was what I wanted to do for a living.

  Christian Hosoi

  Art, Dad, Impact

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."

  Christian Hosoi

  Dad, Men, Thinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours"; or, "My dad is stronger than yours." Children identify with this or that, trying to build up a sense of self - a mentally defined sense of self.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Children, Dad, Self

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I always felt safe and protected. My dad is 6'6" and 280 pounds, so I basically felt protected, and I aspire to have my kids feel the same way.

  Rib Hillis

  Dad, Kids, Safe

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• I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd had. So when I'm writing about relationships or somebody leaving you or something, a lot of lyrics are partly about failed relationships I'd had, but they were also about my Dad, and being abandoned as a kid.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Dad, Writing, Kids

  "Interview: DIIV On Their Sophomore Album, 'Is The Is Are'". Interview With Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I didn't grow up with my dad so I don't know much at all about my heritage.

  Keiynan Lonsdale

  Growing Up, Dad, Heritage

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• I grew up driving old pickup trucks on the ranch with my dad, and I still always find myself driving like I'm out in an open field, except I'm in LA on La Cienega in the middle of rush-hour traffic.

  Amber Heard

  Dad, Fields, Driving

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• My dad used to take my younger sister Whitney and I to the firing range, and he'd stand behind us as we shot. We were tiny, tiny girls, only about ten years old at the time, so the recoil when we pulled the trigger would send us flying backwards. But he'd stand behind us and make sure we were safe.

  Amber Heard

  Girl, Dad, Years

  "20Q: Amber Heard". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. August 10, 2011.

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• I don't shoot anything. I could never kill an animal. My dad does all the hunting, and he eats everything that he kills.

  Amber Heard

  Dad, Animal, Hunting

  "20Q: Amber Heard". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. August 10, 2011.

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• The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was a young FBI agent at his first or second posting - we're all from New York. He was posted in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he put the family in a brand new red-brick apartment. It was in a C-shape and behind it was a small hill that led up to the woods. There was a white-washed brick wall that was a perfect theatre! There were windows and all the ladies behind the windows in their apartments. I would go out there after lunch every day and sing opera.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  New York, Dad, Wall

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken the high road in life and to me he's a complete inspiration without being a pushover.

  Hugh Panaro

  Growing Up, Dad, Father

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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• I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Growing Up, Dad, Play

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

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• Hopefully, most days, you're like, "This is sweet. I wake up and do the things that I do and I'm usually smiling." That's how my dad is with his job.

  Justin Vernon

  Sweet, Jobs, Dad

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

  Yoshi Wada

  Art, Dad, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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