889 private quotes tagged dad

“And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.” — Mike Myers

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“The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.” — Eddie Vedder

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“I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.” — Dennis Miller

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“My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.” — Marion Cotillard

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“The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'” — Dinah Shore

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“Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.” — Wayne Rooney

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“My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.” — Danny Boyle

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“My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.” — Tim Roth

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“My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.” — Serena Williams

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“My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.” — Michael Sheen

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“In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I've been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me.” — Katherine Jenkins

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“My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.” — Al Pacino

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“I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.” — Gordon Ramsay

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“I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.” — Dan Stevens

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“Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.” — Marc Jacobs

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“I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.” — Gordon Ramsay

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“I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.” — Anthony Kiedis

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“My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.” — Hugh Laurie

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“I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.” — Shirley Manson

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“My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.” — Gwen Stefani

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“When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.” — Nicole Richie

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“But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.” — Fiona Apple

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“I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.” — Eric Bana

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“I love my mom and dad.” — Taylor Momsen

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