Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Schirripa

People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.

Merry Clayton

Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.

Ashley Bell

After school, my mom would pick me up and I would just go to visit my dad in the recording studio, and I would see him working with Mark Hamill or hear him doing the 'Transformers' or a 'G.I. Joe' or the 'Rugrats.'

Do you know where he got the idea? ... From a William Saroyan play, 'The Time of Your Life,' that he saw with my mother. Near the end of the play there is a pinball machine that goes off like crazy. Dad couldn't stop thinking about it.

The thing that shocks a lot of people is that these kids are just normal kids. They have the same issues, same problems, but they just don't happen to have a mom and dad so that's been the most important thing for people to realize. They're normal kids that just need a home.

John Krasinski

I've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that he instilled in me.

I wanted everybody to come out hard for me, Dustin and Brad. In memory of Brad's dad, I wanted to make sure we got this win ... hit them early and hit them hard.

After Mom and Dad, I started with the oldest and worked my way down. The youngest ones, sorry, just aren't going to be able to come.

Now I go to the gym every opportunity I get. (I'm there so often), my dad tells me not to go to the gym.

Charlotte McKinney

I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be really... spectacular.

Thank you so much for coming. Dad loved the team and loved his time at Fort Bragg. I'm honored that the team would travel ... to pay their respects to my dad.

Ron Perlman

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

Tell Dad not to flash the guy to the high post.

Julia Voth

Performing has always been something I wanted to do. My dad had a video camera and I loved being in front of it.

It was an emotional night, an extraordinary moment, ... I wish Dad was there to touch and feel the stadium, but I think he might be with me now more than ever.

Joel Kinnaman

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

I sort of made a deal with myself that if I was going to spend a year on a project, I wanted my kids to see it at the end so they know where Dad has been.

Vince Vaughn

I've been there a few times, ... I shot a Western there years ago ... and we would have some time to stop and I would go to Tucson. My dad lives out in Phoenix, so I go down to Tucson every now and then. The landscape in Tucson is just beautiful.

Terry Smith

I've been trying to get with my dad to talk with the Washington State Patrol.

I've been fishing ever since I could walk. Me and my dad go out all the time, go fishing. It's just something that I've always been doing.

Brian Wilson

This is a song my dad and I wrote in the late '60s,

Cameron Crowe

The whimsical side of my dad really comes through in this movie.

Meg White

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.

That's my given name, F-R-O-S-T-E-E. My mom and dad wanted to name me something unusual.

Damon Wayans, Jr.

You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.

Dean Young

You see, my dad grew up on Hollywood two-reelers and screwball comedies, ... His humor was very surreal and fanciful at times. I grew up on a steady diet of TV sitcoms, so my humor is more-to-earth.

Tommy John

You're going to feel good. But no matter how much rehab you do, you can't speed up the healing process. I'd rather a guy come back in 14 months and pitch seven, eight, nine more years than come back in 10 months and get hurt again. You can't mess with mom and dad ? Mother Nature and Father Time. Nature will heal it if you give it time.

Brandon T. Jackson

I've always been funny. I look back in the day, when I would take the mic from my dad in church and just start goin', at age six, the first time I did it. I think 14 was when I knew I wanted to do it and promote my own comedy shows at the church. Then, everyone would come.

Aziz Ansari

My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.

Brian Kilmeade

My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.

Brad Paisley

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

Brad Pitt

Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.

Kenneth Cranham

You have to succeed as a young actor, then as a dad actor, those would be my 'Harvey Moon' years, then as an old actor.