I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a mentor to me in my manhood because my mom couldn't teach me how to be a man.
Francis Capra
Related When I was younger, coming up in this industry, I was 17, 18 years old. You couldn't tell me Bey... LIL MAMA My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been ab... FREDDIE PRINZE, JR. My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who w... BETH DITTO My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... WARREN BEATTY I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough,... WHITNEY CUMMINGS My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consiste... DAVID CASSIDY My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry. JOHN DARNIELLE Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game. 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THOMAS Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, i... KARL MALONE Salman will always be that special person in my life because he was able to change my career. I will... JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh... DARIUS RUCKER A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues ... CHRISTOPHER POOLE My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a prin... JOE ESZTERHAS There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because... BARRY MCGUIRE I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I... DAN HILL I'm kinda secretive, and I can't even say secretive because of my son. He's the type, li... REMY MA When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Phil... MIKE BIRBIGLIA I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group ... ARI GRAYNOR I don't remember my first trip, but I do remember when my mom took me to Disney World in Orlando... LISA LING I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job ... TAYLOR SHERIDAN My Father taught me how to be a man and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda ... KEVIN SMITH Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involv... KIM WESTON My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in f... EDWARD P. JONES People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how ... JUDITH JAMISON My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his... ESAI MORALES 'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, sev... ODETTE ANNABLE My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark... J. R. SMITH He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my fa... ANNE HECHE I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it di... NATASHA TRETHEWEY My parents met at Fort Riley, Kan., during World War II. My father was an Army civilian; he had been... MARILLYN HEWSON Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last ... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn... EDDIE GUERRERO I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that ... ANTOINE PREDOCK When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betray... DEMI MOORE In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of... ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ... JACKIE CHAN The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It wa... PATTI DAVIS My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a... P. L. TRAVERS My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artis... ANNA MOUGLALIS My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He wa... ZOE WANAMAKER He was a very stern man, referred to me as his boy. I was his star pupil and he was my mentor. J. LOREN WINCE My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It ... CANDIS CAYNE I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when ... KANDYSE MCCLURE My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his... BOB FELLER My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He li... PATTI SMITH I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won&... BEN ROETHLISBERGER I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I&... KYRIE IRVING My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My da... ASHTON KUTCHER There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ... CAROL VORDERMAN I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all. ANTHONY HOROWITZ My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore... ALISON GOLDFRAPP Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't ... LYNN JOHNSTON Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to k... DAKOTA GOYO My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward att... WARWICK DAVIS My son is 14, and I only have this time with him. True, it's not like before when I couldn't... GLENNE HEADLY Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... JOHN LENNON I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself o... DWAYNE JOHNSON My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading ... CHELSEA CLINTON Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,... WARREN MOON I wouldn't know how to design. I couldn't even if I wanted to, for I can't draw, and a p... JEAN PATOU 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 would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my par... NICOLE RICHIE I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my... BARBRA STREISAND There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my... WHITNEY CUMMINGS I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted ... KAROLYN GRIMES I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work. KAT DENNINGS My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he h... STEPHEN KING I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger... PAUL WELLER I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an ido... JOHN LOGAN I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve. BARRY STERNLICHT My mother says that my father truly enjoyed having a son. My two-years-younger twin sisters felt tha... ROBERT F. ENGLE My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND We grew up in a middle-class family in Chicago. Even when we went on vacation as a family, it wasn... SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing ... CARRIE MAE WEEMS My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It was... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the... BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jo... SANDRA CISNEROS When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ... FRANK GEHRY My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was ... PRINCE My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go any... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or ... NATASCHA MCELHONE I'm not entangled in a bunch of lawsuits and a web that I can't get out of. I can hold my he... PRINCE Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage ... BONO I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Ni... WALE There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me ... JACK NICKLAUS I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the ... STACEY BENDET The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but th... XAVIER DOLAN I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. H... MIKE D My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn't... LZ GRANDERSON I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest respo... FAY WRAY
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