Dad Quotes

I would walk into a room at a young age and I'd say, 'Hi, Dad,' and he would say, 'SON, PROJECT YOUR VOICE. LET THEM KNOW YOU'RE IN THE ROOM. SHOULDERS BACK. CHEST OUT.'

I think Sam Smith's dad got a huge loan or something to help his career. Those things can help artists get attention, but I guess my song 'Say You Won't Let Go' proved it's about the song.

I've known my dad my whole life, and my dad is probably one of the most intellectually sober and smart people that I've ever encountered. So to have somebody manipulate and mischaracterize him - it was sort of a harsh lesson in politics.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft.

I don't care who your dad or granddad or mom is. You're not them, and they're not you. It really doesn't matter at the end of the day.

My dad's from Nigeria and my mom's from Grenada and they both went into medicine. My dad's a psychiatrist and my mom's a nurse so I was going to go into medicine, also.

My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.

My mom and dad weren't together, so I never thought I would get married.

The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.

At a meet and greet in a nightclub in Texas, a girl who looked about 15 years old gave me a VHS copy of 'Adventures in Babysitting,' and she whispered in my ear that it's really just home movie footage of her dad practicing judo.

My mum is the biggest Joni Mitchell fan, and my dad loves Neil Young.

I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.

No matter if my dad had to work, or my sister was gone until 7, or I had basketball practice until 8, we always ate together. I think that's a big part of the Hispanic family, the culture. That is key to our existence, really.

I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London.

My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.