Dad Quotes

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.

I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

You see, everything I know, I learned from my dad. He learned it all from his, and his dad just happened to be wrong about everything

I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids — more than anything else — need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't have to be alive for that to happen.

What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.

I’ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics.

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

I'm very, very close to my mum and dad. My mum is only nineteen years older than me, so she could be my older sister, which is really nice.

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking. My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.

I didn't read much as a kid. Strangely enough, when I first met my dad, Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, I didn't know he was my dad and I fell in love with him. I put his poster on my wall.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

I have a Father's Day every day

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.

Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won't take away your manhood; it will give it to you.

I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.

There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

A few weeks ago my uncle came over to borrow my dad's socket set and when he asked my dad how he was my dad said oh unexceptional. Living quietly with my disappointments. And how are you

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think he stole that line from Spiderman.

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.