Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emma Stone

I think I was drawn to comedy originally because when I was really young, by the time I was eight I had seen movies like The Jerk, Animal House, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles with my dad, and I knew them by heart. I loved them and my dad loved them, and we would laugh together, and I would think, 'This is love.' I just wanted to make people feel like that.

Frank Lampard

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.

Helen McCrory

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

Gordon Ramsay

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

John Lydon

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

John Lithgow

One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it tells people about my dad. He really was an important man. He was a kind of pioneer of regional theater. He was the first American producer to ever produce all of Shakespeare plays.

John Leeson

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

John L. Phillips

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

Jodie Foster

I really did feel like I was surrounded by family members. I didn't have a dad, and I remember there were all these guys - in the old days, there were no women, except a makeup artist or, occasionally, a script supervisor. So there were just guys who taught me how to, you know, whittle wood, or how to pull focus, and what the camera was doing. And if I was being bratty, they'd sit me down and tell me. There were lots of rules about not being late and making sure that you didn't spill anything. So it felt a little bit like I was in a family.

Jim Nantz

You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for the Masters broadcast or when I was writing with my friend Eli Stillman a book about my dad called 'Always By My Side,' I'm always trying to find a way to do something better.

As soon as Dad got a taste of it, that's all he could think of.

Robert Creeley

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.

David Gallagher

A lot of it has to do with my dad. He was a mechanic my whole life. I grew up with cars. ... I have the utmost respect for American muscle cars.

They don't want to miss out again. They were here for the Patriot League tournament and they're staying for two weeks longer. My dad only has so much time off. If we get to the Final Four, hopefully he can work something out.

Thirty years ago, on a lark, my dad took a seed from a grapefruit and planted it. I remember seeing it, a little twig sticking out of the ground. Amazingly, it grew. It's tall and huge now. It's turned into a monster.

Holly Hunter

They used to just give them to their own kids. Dad was a big joker when we were young. I found money in my nuts.

This means a lot to me. My dad wrestled for Mahopac and finished third and then he coached, so to keep it in the family and win the section is great.

There was a train scene, and Dad was able to research schedules and even get the right number for the locomotive.

Dan Reynolds

There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.

Laila Ali

It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way he used to be when he was my age, when he was in his prime, because we are so much alike,

It's a dream come true from a dad's standpoint. Every dad wants this for their son.

It really hadn't hit him yet how sick his dad was. He's had a number of strokes and he always ended up going home.

It wasn't like growing up with Lou Costello. It was growing up with Dad.

Ernie Els

It's awfully difficult. I know that Tiger's dad is pretty sick. Obviously, they are very close, and there's no secret about that. You know, I hope (Earl Woods) pulls through it. It must be very tough.

Patrick Murphy

My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.

Seinabo Sey

We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.

Stephanie Beatriz

I remember watching 'Colombo' a lot with my dad. That was one of the first detective shows I remember watching. And I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with 'Seinfeld' all the time. He did it with 'Colombo', too, set the scene.

Francesco Quinn

I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'

Courtney Eaton

My dad brought me up to be a good person.

Timothy Simons

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

Sarah Addison Allen

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

Abbie Cornish

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.