My Dad Quotes - Page 34

• My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

  Jim Hamilton

  Brother, Dad, Father

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.

  Dreezy

  Dad, Punishment, Jail

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I don't have like whatever, so I'm just like, "Oh man, I'm just going to try to stay out of most people's way and get a taco and enjoy myself as much as I can," because it's such a beautiful town. Beautiful weather. I called my dad that day to tell him what was going on with my passport and he was like, "Yeah it snowed four inches today. It's ten degrees outside." I'm just like, "Cool. I'm glad I'm in Austin, no matter what."

  Justin Vernon

  Beautiful, Dad, Men

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

  Zach Condon

  Dad, Player, Guitar

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• My mother's Cubana/Irish and my dad's Catalan. And that blows my mind.

  Prefuse 73

  Mother, Dad, Blow

  Interview with Jamin Warren, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• Yes, a lot of European cinema and a lot of independent films and art-house stuff. She is a photographer. She is a visual artist and photographer and my dad is, too. My mum, I must credit for showing me good films. With my career, my parents were great and though they were a little wary, maybe, of the acting ambitions they have always been supportive.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Art, Dad, Independent

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I was about five my dad built a stage for me in our basement. A full stage, with a curtain, a backdrop and a dressing room. There were three colored spotlights - a red one, a white one, and a blue one. Blue was for nighttime scenes, and red was for when we were in hell. If the neighborhood kids wanted to use the stage, they had to incorporate me into the play.

  Paul Reubens

  Dad, Kids, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Mom, Dad, Children

  Source: www.gq.com

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• My dad brought me Michael Jackson and Madonna and said, "This is ALL you need to know!"

  Neon Hitch

  Dad, Needs, Said

  Source: www.elle.com

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• So yeah, when I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.

  Meryl Streep

  Song, Dad, Home

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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• The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.

  Brian Henson

  Mom, Dad, Night

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It was actually what my dad did and with the Muppets, the years with the Muppets, it was really all targeted to adults. It was in a time when everything had to be safe for the whole family. But he was targeting adults.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Years, Adults

  Source: bigthink.com

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• "Sesame Street" was really the first kid's show that my dad did. He did a couple of TV specials that were targeted for kids before "Sesame Street," but really, it was, it's kind of going back to our roots, when we start to get adult. This show gets very adult sometimes, and that's because of the audience.

  Brian Henson

  Couple, Dad, Kids

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Really, initially what I very quickly realized that I was loving about the show was, because it reminded me of when I was a kid and I would visit the sets where my dad was shooting with the other puppeteers.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Kids, Shooting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And it was a whole lot of fun, and in many ways, what we've done with the show is just taken that part of my early memories of visiting my dad, shooting with the Muppets, and taking that and making a show that's really an expansion of that and presenting a show that's all that.

  Brian Henson

  Fun, Memories, Dad

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And that was always my father's favorite part about shooting as well. Often my dad would shoot very, very late, he was quite a workaholic, they would do 20, 20-hour shoots and stuff like that.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Father, Shooting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In the show, we have recreated two sketches that my dad had, or pieces that my dad had developed. One that he had developed with my mother, one that Frank Oz had developed with my dad. And these are old pieces from the '50's and '60's, and we're going to develop more, too.

  Brian Henson

  Mother, Dad, Two

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's really great to do one piece, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," my dad developed in 1956, when he was 20 years old, and it's great to do that piece again now and see that it still really works as well as it ever did.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Years, Pieces

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Oh, well, I can't tell you; it would be telling you the end. It's a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days, that's what my dad was doing.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Character, Would Be

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.

  Brian Henson

  Mom, Dad, Stories

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I always very much enjoyed arts and it was so central in my family, my mother was also an art teacher, as well as founding the Henson Company with my dad, there was a lot of art going on in our household.

  Brian Henson

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  Source: bigthink.com

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• At that point, I thought probably special effects, something like that, and indeed, the early days when I was working with my dad, after I left school, I only went to less than one year of college, and then I was transferring, and then I delayed my transfer, and I did a movie, and then another movie, and then I never finished college.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, School, College

  Source: bigthink.com

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• But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Special, Puppets

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Riding, London

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I guess I learned a couple of good lessons from my dad. One was when you're creating something, what you want when you're working with a team of other artists, is everybody to work with some creative freedom, so that you really get the best out of everybody.

  Brian Henson

  Couple, Dad, Team

  Source: bigthink.com

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