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Related My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up... HUGH JACKMAN Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And whe... ERIC MCCORMACK Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often ... ALEXANDER DOWNER If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my fa... ANNE HECHE I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, 'I love your movies!' And, of course, he asked, 'Whi... KARAN JOHAR Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for... STEVEN SPIELBERG Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the b... LUPE FIASCO Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always... ART ALEXAKIS When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I ki... CLAIRE DENIS After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I gu... WHITNEY CUMMINGS One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I... JOHN BURNSIDE It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u... JACK STRAW When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They ... HANS MATHESON Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no wome... STEVE HARVEY I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that ... ANNE HATHAWAY I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps... YOTAM OTTOLENGHI My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ... MACKENZIE PHILLIPS My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched ... JOANNE FROGGATT Growing up in New Orleans as Archie Manning's son, I felt like a target, and I've always kno... PEYTON MANNING I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ... B. B. KING When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New Yor... ALEKSA PALLADINO If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my... EMILY OSTER Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist in... AYELET WALDMAN Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn'... CARLOS PENA, JR. Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different.... CAROL LEIFER I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Stree... JACK WILD My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people alway... MARIAH CAREY I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at R... RITA ORA If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits... LYNN JOHNSTON Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it... DOUG DAVIDSON When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And t... LINDA BLAIR My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. 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JEFF MACNELLY I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought... RORY KENNEDY I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. B... FRED DURST Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa... PARIS JACKSON I've always been a fan of my father's films. I'm crazy about my father and his movies. I... DULQUER SALMAAN I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say ... VICKY HARTZLER It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed wi... ELIZA COUPE If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... VIN DIESEL I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t... MAHESH BABU Growing up in Canada, none of my family were performers or anything like that, but I was terrible at... ERIC JOHNSON As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. M... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL 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 still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by con... COLM TOIBIN When I was growing up, my father would not allow me to get a perm, so I straightened my hair for spe... ANGELA ROBINSON Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me... HUGH LAURIE I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching ho... TAISSA FARMIGA I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa... CHRISTY TURLINGTON If the plane lost all my luggage, and I was somewhere sunny like Ibiza, I would just get a bikini, s... KATE MOSS My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from... KADEE STRICKLAND As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have... NICKI MINAJ I'm learning a lot about how to be one of the 'good' actors. You'd hope that it'... LILY JAMES For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you... LEBRON JAMES I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. ... MAHESH BABU 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 played five years for Valence in France's second division. I'd always cry when he ... HENRIKH MKHITARYAN Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my character... BRENT WEEKS I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-b... F. GARY GRAY I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to... LAURA TROTT I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for i... MAE WHITMAN People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thoug... TRAVIS FIMMEL Mubarak would meet with me when I was at Central Command. He would lean and put his hand on my knee,... DAVID PETRAEUS My family actually moved a lot growing up. I really only lived in one place every five or six years,... DAVID LAMBERT My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... QUEEN LATIFAH I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young ... MIRIAM MARGOLYES If I wasn't acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like... MATTHEW DADDARIO I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A... BEN FOSTER I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absol... JACK REYNOR I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I rememb... CAMERON MACKINTOSH I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ... SOPHIE B. HAWKINS 'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often... ABIGAIL WASHBURN Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six m... LESLIE BIBB I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish ... BILLY WILLIAMS I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, '... MINDY KALING Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I us... STEVE BUSCEMI My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing i... KEKE PALMER But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I&... DOROTHY DUNNETT I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy.... ADAM MCKAY History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook, it's so amazing because years ago, when I was growing up and wa... BYRON HOWARD I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I w... MAGGIE Q I am often asked what I would be doing if I hadn't become a writer. I have long said I would pro... JANE GREEN Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he sa... EUGENE JARECKI I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, ... LANE GARRISON A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I&... GABRIEL BYRNE 'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of ... ED STOPPARD When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I aske... RYAN LOCHTE I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go t... SHAILENE WOODLEY If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle clas... DAVE VAN RONK
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Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much wate... HUGH ELLIOTT I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, a... HUGH ELLIOTT Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right ... HUGH ELLIOTT If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke. HUGH ELLIOTT I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love... HUGH LAURIE I feel when acting, I am sometimes overly self-conscious; I think, 'Going, no, don't, put yo... HUGH LAURIE I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably a... HUGH LAURIE Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place ... HUGH SHELTON But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serv... HUGH SHELTON Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life. HUGH WALPOLE Fundamentalist Christians, adhering to what is termed 'creation science,' loudly promote the... HUGH ROSS If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write. HUGH PRATHER I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o... HUGH LAURIE I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's m... HUGH HEFNER Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred. HUGH GRANT We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastati... HUGH SHELTON And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quali... HUGH GRANT Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend... HUGH MILLER They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a c... HUGH SIDEY The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passe... HUGH LAURIE In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life. HUGH HEFNER Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irr... HUGH MACKAY I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which... HUGH LAURIE The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - ... HUGH LAURIE Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining ... HUGH HEFNER Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. HUGH PRATHER To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in... HUGH PRATHER Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain. HUGH PRATHER Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long a... HUGH PRATHER I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen. HUGH GRANT Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. HUGH BLAIR It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar. HUGH HUDSON What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew... HUGH MASEKELA I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the ... HUGH LAURIE I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave. HUGH HEFNER Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our childr... HUGH MACKAY On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a ... HUGH MACKAY Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives. HUGH MACKAY But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem ... HUGH MACKAY Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaning... HUGH MACKAY