889 private quotes tagged dad

“I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.” — Robert Rodriguez

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“After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.” — Jenny Eclair

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“My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.” — Robert Carlyle

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“You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.” — Andre Agassi

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“I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.” — Jenny Eclair

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“My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.” — Robert Pattinson

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“I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.” — Tony Parsons

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“I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.” — Jimmy Fallon

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“I grew up with baseball I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.” — Jonah Hill

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“I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.” — Robert Carlyle

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“My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.” — David Miliband

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“My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.” — Richard Russo

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“My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.” — Paul Lynde

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“My mom's a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.” — Seth Rogen

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“I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.” — Kevin Eubanks

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“Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.” — Paul Lynde

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“I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'” — Robert Pattinson

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“I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.” — Ville Valo

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“I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!” — Wesley Snipes

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“Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.” — Ernie Harwell

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“My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.” — Albert Brooks

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“I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.” — Emily Mortimer

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“My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.” — Samuel L. Jackson

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“I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.” — Shay Mitchell

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

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