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My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courag... GORE VIDAL 'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; ...
LARENZ TATE
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... WARREN BEATTY
As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ... JACKIE CHAN Most kids just follow the cycle. My grandfather didn't finish high school. My father didn't,...
ERIC D. THOMAS 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've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gav... LIZA MINNELLI
I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante... LAILA ALI My first job was as a waitress, and I waitressed for a long, long time. I was a very bad waitress. I...
CHERYL HINES
My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He... MACAULAY CULKIN
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coa... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ...
CAROL VORDERMAN It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-e...
ELLEN MUTH
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist in... AYELET WALDMAN
I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w... AMY CHUA Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to ...
MAX VON SYDOW
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But whe...
JARED KUSHNER
My father left when I was really young, but he's still living. There are things I wish I'd s... SARAH SHAHI
The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a ... RICHARD LAGRAVENESE I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR
When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house... ORIANA FALLACI
I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He... JANE FONDA
If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was... GLORIA VANDERBILT
People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems... PALOMA PICASSO
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND
Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My br... VAL KILMER I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry F...
PETER FONDA My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would ha...
TYLER BLACKBURN I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I&...
KYRIE IRVING
I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got t... CAROLINE KENNEDY
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn&... TOM WOLFE The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g...
ADEPERO ODUYE
I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was p... HARBHAJAN SINGH My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I...
GRACE SLICK
My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he mad... TOMMY LEE I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my...
JESMYN WARD
It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, b... RICHARD GERE
When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told... NATE ROBINSON
I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the... RACHEL MCADAMS I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read chil...
HENNING MANKELL It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a...
CAREY MULLIGAN From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had every...
EDGAR MEYER
I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious t... IRIS APFEL
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'... LAILA ALI My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality b...
STEVE TISCH
I was doing a show at the Comedy Store which Eddie Izzard saw, and we chatted for a bit afterwards. ... TREVOR NOAH
Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never g... SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn...
JUDD GREGG
My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You kno... J. R. MARTINEZ
My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, ... NOVAK DJOKOVIC
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but h... RALPH LAUREN My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know ...
LUPITA NYONG'O
My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed ... CARRIE FISHER A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues ...
CHRISTOPHER POOLE My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE
What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You kno... DONALD TRUMP
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground...
RONNIE DUNN
My father was kicked out of the National Front. He does whatever he wants. It doesn't concern me... MARINE LE PEN My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costum...
MAMIE GUMMER
I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparent... BRITT EKLAND
I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with -... GARRY SHANDLING
I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't ... TED DANSON I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so m...
HARMONY KORINE
Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came ... ROBERT MONDAVI
My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his ... MALCOLM X The Olympics was always my be-all and end-all, so when I won, it was the best feeling in the world. ...
JADE JONES With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not ...
GRANDMASTER FLASH
As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and... NATHANIEL KAHN
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was ... PRINCE When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank f...
CHELAN SIMMONS
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,'... CARROLL SHELBY
I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in t... KENDALL JENNER
My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn't... LZ GRANDERSON
I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I'll never do that again. It wasn't pleasant, and I lea... JESSICA BIEL My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father did...
RUTH RENDELL
It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consiste... DAVID CASSIDY Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Mummy was absolutely the rock in my life. It was not that I didn't love my father; he was such a... MIRIAM MARGOLYES
I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He w... HUGH JACKMAN I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' an...
FREDDIE PRINZE
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ... AUGUST WILSON I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really r...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
I'm very emotional. When I went through my first breakup, I thought it was the end of the world,... SELENA GOMEZ
My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that som... HUEY NEWTON
My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated... SYLVIA PLATH This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watc...
BETH BRODERICK
I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, '... JIDENNA Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport.
ELENA DELLE DONNE
I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he di... PATTI DAVIS
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. ANNE SEXTON
My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried abou... PAULA DANZIGER
It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at ... JOYCE MEYER
I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn&... BILL GOLDBERG
A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kis... TERRY WOGAN I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was...
CHARLIE ROSE When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister a...
ANEURIN BARNARD
I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don'... TEENA MARIE
Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal line... 
Soldiers! When it is announced that a respected and beloved leader has died for our freedom in the c... 
The commentators of 1963 speak, in discussing Africa, of the Monrovia States, the Brazzaville Group,... 