Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie quote: "I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's."

I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born...
NATALIE DORMER

I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'...
LAILA ALI

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
AMBER HEARD

I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t...
MAHESH BABU

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, ...
JOHN PIPER

I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I&...
KYRIE IRVING

There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel li...
KRISTEN STEWART

I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I ca...
DWIGHT HENRY

My guilty pleasure is vanilla cupcakes! I love cupcakes! I love cupcakes. When it's really bad, ...
GLOZELL

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
AARON PAUL

My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent...
BEVERLY SILLS

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I ge...
HANK AARON

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man...
ZOSIA MAMET

It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of yo...
KOBE BRYANT

In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my...
DAVID BECKHAM

It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.
JAMES VAN DER BEEK

I am grateful for my father's legacy. I am grateful to have found out who my real friends are. I...
GRACE POE

I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be...
INARA GEORGE

My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courag...
GORE VIDAL

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Ho...
MICHELLE PFEIFFER

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.
DOLLY PARTON

I can open my mouth and eat. I feel my lips, my nose and my mouth.
ISABELLE DINOIRE

I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON

If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long a...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bi...
ADELAIDE KANE

I've always been a fan of my father's films. I'm crazy about my father and his movies. I...
DULQUER SALMAAN

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Z...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

I'll tell you what, I love my daddy. And he's so special. He's meant so much to me, so i...
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ

'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'...
ATHOL FUGARD

I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a m...
FRANCIS CAPRA

That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't...
ALAN KING

My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me...
ACTION BRONSON

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
JOHN DARNIELLE

I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the ...
STACEY BENDET

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.
JENNIFER ANISTON

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some...
WARREN BEATTY

He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa...
JUNE CARTER CASH

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French ex...
JOAN COLLINS

My mum is the funniest and sweetest person I know; my sister's like my best friend, so it's ...
JACOB WHITESIDES

I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favori...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I h...
MATT GROENING

Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts waterin...
MORGAN SPURLOCK

My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband...
ORLANDO BLOOM

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
YOHAN BLAKE

I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones t...
ALAINA HUFFMAN

My father... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother...
STEVE TISCH

I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&...
JESSICA HAGEDORN

On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father&#...
DAN FEUERRIEGEL

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib...
ROALD DAHL

I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I di...
TREY SONGZ

I had this tic where I touch my mouth to my knee, and I'm always screwing up my back. I've h...
DASH MIHOK

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to ...
CARLENE CARTER

I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18...
JOAN COLLINS

I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

oh shit, i think. my cheeks are on fire; my heart starts to pound.
JODI PICOULT

is it like this every night, while we're asleep?
JODI PICOULT

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive
JODI PICOULT

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.
JODI PICOULT

there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.
JODI PICOULT

i don't need you. i never needed you."
"well, i fucking needed you!
JODI PICOULT

don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it ...
JODI PICOULT

something is always falling apart in me.
JODI PICOULT

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.
DAVID CASSIDY

It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn...
ELLEN BARKIN

At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
CHRISTIE HEFNER

For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, tha...
YULIYA SNIGIR

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different....
CAROL LEIFER

I remember my jaw would hurt because I wasn't used to speaking English all the time. Like how, e...
KUMAIL NANJIANI

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed...
BRITT EKLAND

I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's b...
STEPHANIE ZIMBALIST

My sister and I cooked a lot together; my sister was a very healthy vegetarian. She was always a rea...
GUY FIERI

I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I di...
CHARLES SCHWAB

I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' H...
ADRIENNE BAILON

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn'...
J. COLE

'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It&#...
ADRIANO GIANNINI

It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don'...
CAM GIGANDET

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
CARRIE FISHER

When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is t...
ROZ CHAST

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing...
ADAM RAPP

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there&#...
RACHEL KELLER

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY

I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's al...
NATALIE MAINES

Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don&#...
SHANIA TWAIN

My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I was...
PAMELA ADLON

I would say that I love pizza so much that sometimes I eat pizza while I'm eating pizza. Like, I...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

I was a real mummy's girl - still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I...
SHAKIRA

It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consiste...
DAVID CASSIDY

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.
JESSE MCCARTNEY

I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my li...
ROBERT ORBEN

Since the day I was born, wrestling has sustained me and my family. It's the way my father fed m...
EDDIE GUERRERO

I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful lead...
JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK

I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for ...
EMMYLOU HARRIS

My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from...
KADEE STRICKLAND

My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I don't like it is...
BILL BURR

I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my ...
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG

I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
YANI TSENG

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not m...
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY III

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ...
JACKIE CHAN

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone...
MR. T

I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.

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