889 private quotes tagged dad

“I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids watch R-rated movies. I'll walk by the movie theater and say, 'Let's go see that,' and my kids will say, 'No, it's rated R. It's not appropriate for kids.' I'm like Uncle Dad. We have fun. I don't live with them, but I drive over four days a week.” — Marlon Wayans

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“My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.” — Chris Isaak

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“I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.” — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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“My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.” — Mike Mills

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“My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.” — Ben Barnes

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“My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.” — Larry Elder

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“My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.” — Alastair Campbell

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“I often talk with other actors about that time when you've just finished a job, because I think you do take on the characteristics of some of the characters you play. Sometimes it can be a great thing and sometimes it's a bit haunting because you're not quite sure how to leave it on set. My dad talks about it as being 'de-personalised.'” — Ben Barnes

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“My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.” — Robbie Coltrane

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“My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.” — Benicio Del Toro

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“I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.” — O. J. Simpson

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“My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.” — Jenna Bush

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“It's not like he called me up and asked me. They've never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this.” — Jenna Bush

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“I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.” — Jamie Redknapp

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“I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.” — Nick Offerman

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“People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.” — Giancarlo Esposito

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“I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.” — Ann Richards

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“Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.” — Mark Hoppus

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“I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.” — Skeet Ulrich

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“My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.” — Richard M. Daley

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“I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.” — Jason Bateman

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“My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents they did what parents are supposed to do.” — Tina Yothers

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“I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.” — Nicole Scherzinger

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“I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.” — Michael Fassbender

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“My mom's been married three times my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.” — Skeet Ulrich

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