Famous Quotes: Dad

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.
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My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
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My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?
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At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 magnum.
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My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.
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No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
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My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.
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My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
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My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.
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An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
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It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
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My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.
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My dad took me to my first movie.
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It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.
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My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
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As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.
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I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.
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