Sidney Poitier
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MARK GATISS He was my right-hand man, no question. He worked with me most of the time as my offensive line coach... BILL MARION CARRIE FISHER SPIKE MILLIGAN KENDALL JENNER My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a p... FINN JONES I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart ma... CODY HORN PHIL JACKSON DAN STEVENS BEAU BRIDGES JOHNNY CASH FRANCESCA ANNIS My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business o... AARON KLUG JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK JOHN C. REILLY EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ... MARK BILLINGHAM MITT ROMNEY LYLE LOVETT SAM BROWNBACK APOLO OHNO VERNON WELLS LYNN JOHNSTON JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN RYAN GUZMAN I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved... ROBERT POWELL My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas a... JAMIE WYETH My father was a miner and he worked down a mine. KEVIN KEEGAN JOHNNY CASH My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed ... CARL WEATHERS TREY PARKER DEYTH BANGER My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to... PATRICK MURPHY My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professio... OLIVIER MARTINEZ JACKSON BROWNE I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t... MAHESH BABU Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always... ART ALEXAKIS ELNA BAKER My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ... JOE LHOTA SIDNEY POITIER ANDY GARCIA BILL NYE My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter... SHIRIN NESHAT My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da... TONY HALE TOM BRADY My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column... SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN BRAD PITT My mom was a singer in Chicago and still is a cabaret singer, and she was very theatrical. And my da... HAYES MACARTHUR My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a ... JADEN SMITH JANET FITCH MARIA SHARAPOVA JANE PAULEY BRAD GORESKI SAM SHEPARD OLIVIA HUSSEY My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he wa... MIKE ROWE DOLPH LUNDGREN SALMAN RUSHDIE My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was ... GARETH BALE THURGOOD MARSHALL My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk fro... WLADYSLAW REYMONT DIKEMBE MUTOMBO MIRIAM MARGOLYES My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young... ATTICUS ROSS Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth... STACEY LEE CAROL LEIFER My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father. DOLORES HUERTA MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS LAILA ALI DAN FEUERRIEGEL ROBERT STROMBERG MARIA SHRIVER In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he wa... SAGE STALLONE I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn'... BEN ROETHLISBERGER SIDNEY POITIER My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li... MICHAEL HANEKE My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. O... NICK FERGUSON When my dad came here, he came on a scholarship in the late '60s, and he went to Mississippi Sta... KELVIN YU AL PACINO I started with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee and Lou Gossett, Jr. and the rest of the wonderful cast o... GLYNN TURMAN CAMILLE PAGLIA My father is an amazing guy - he's a total, total patriot... He loves America ... and he says wh... ERIC TRUMP ARLEN SPECTER My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a b... BRETT DALTON STEVE ALBINI My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could en... THOMAS RHETT
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He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... 
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man... 
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef... 
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat... 
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... 
Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And whe... 
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and ... 
My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed ... 
My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mo... 
My dad is my dad, but he's not there physically anymore. But she lets me call her 'Dad' ... 
My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. ... 
My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of E... 
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. 
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... 
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... 
I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful lead... 
Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish ... 
I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a gre... 
Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked t... 
Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was m... 
My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer. 
My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life.... 
I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always... 
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My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In... 
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Who's my hero? That's a great question... Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he's ... 
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My dad was my wake-up call and he said, 'Good morning, champion,' ... He is really happy. My mom cal... 
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II... 
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Either I will find a way, or I will make one. 
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Into the woods my Master came,
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Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup. 
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Out of the hills of Habersham,
Down the valleys of Hall,
I hurry amain to reach the plain;
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