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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 think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he di...
PATTI DAVIS![]()
He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my fa...
ANNE HECHE My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality b...
STEVE TISCH![]()
My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if ther...
DIANNA AGRON When I didn't go to church during my first two years in the NFL, I didn't know how it would ...
ERIC WEDDLE![]()
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a...
OLIVIA HUSSEY My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ...
CATHERINE TATE My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making wha...
ALAN C. GREENBERG![]()
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h...
JO NESBO My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he...
ROBERT RIPLEY My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passio...
LASSE HALLSTROM I was invited to a dinner party by an ex, and I was convinced that he wanted to rekindle our relatio...
CHRISSIE FIT My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go place...
FELICIA DAY![]()
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if ...
JOSEPH HELLER![]()
Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa...
PARIS JACKSON There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ...
CAROL VORDERMAN![]()
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat...
SIDNEY POITIER![]()
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.![]()
People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems...
PALOMA PICASSO I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd tak...
BERNARD L. SCHWARTZ My father would go shopping, and he was supposed to buy loo roll or something, but he'd always c...
TOM PARKER BOWLES![]()
At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.
PATRICK WARBURTON![]()
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h...
JODI PICOULT![]()
It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of...
LISA SNOWDON![]()
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ...
EDMUND WHITE![]()
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h...
GREGG ALLMAN He was held there for a couple of months. Every day an officer would come onto the field with a loud...
EDMUNDO BOUDON Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words a...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT If (the driver) would have stopped, he could have helped my father-in-law. He always worked hard. He...
FRANCISCO GONZALEZ 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 an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but h...
RALPH LAUREN When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN He was a real family man. Every Sunday he would cook up this big feast over at his house, and my wif...
GLENN KROLL My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was a...
VIKRAM ROHIT SHETTY My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because...
BRUCE FORSYTH![]()
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren&#...
WALTER MOSLEY![]()
My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a write...
TWINKLE KHANNA![]()
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
ANNE SEXTON I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would wri...
BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL![]()
He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, ...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS 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 lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go any...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter...
SHIRIN NESHAT I can't see it being made as Danny's next fight. No way. If Anthony had any brains, he would do it, ...
JUSTIN MANOLIKOS My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it ...
PETE HAMILL![]()
My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He li...
PATTI SMITH My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground...
RONNIE DUNN![]()
Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.
RYAN REYNOLDS I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ...
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS![]()
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he d...
DAVID ROCKEFELLER I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid...
HERB RITTS He never sold anything for us. He was a distributor for us for six months.
JEFF WAGNER My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was alwa...
JENNIFER JOHNSTON![]()
My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed ...
CARRIE FISHER![]()
My earliest memories as a kid was I would always try to make my mom and my stepdad laugh at dinner. ...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years...
IAN HISLOP My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ...
MARK BILLINGHAM My first celeb crush was Hanson. I loved all three of them. My sister and I would always fight, and ...
ASHLEY BENSON![]()
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't...
WALTER DEAN MYERS![]()
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
E. W. HOWE![]()
My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down tha...
JOHN MORGRIDGE![]()
My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, an...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT![]()
I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a to...
FRANKA POTENTE My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye...
DAMON WAYANS, JR. I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate ca...
CURT SCHILLING![]()
My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in t...
CLARENCE THOMAS![]()
In politics, my role model would be a very weird one - our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was ...
JOAQUIM BARBOSA He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape ...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE![]()
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 could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a prin...
JOE ESZTERHAS![]()
My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't hav...
AL FRANKEN My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He wa...
ZOE WANAMAKER I met Robert Redford at the Golden Globes because he stepped on my foot. He stepped on my foot as he...
RETTA![]()
My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he mad...
TOMMY LEE![]()
I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I t...
STEVEN WRIGHT![]()
Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And whe...
ERIC MCCORMACK![]()
I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and ...
BEAR BRYANT![]()
When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lo...
MATTHEW QUICK![]()
Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the b...
LUPE FIASCO![]()
Here's my take on Andy Kaufman... For Kaufman, comedy was a skill that was open for examination....
RHYS DARBY![]()
It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at ...
JOYCE MEYER He was there for everyone, and he would help till the ends of the earth. I would never change a thin...
FANNY HARVEY When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer ha...
TERRY J. LUNDGREN![]()
I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate the...
MATT SMITH![]()
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat...
DONALD TRUMP![]()
While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important ...
MUHTAR KENT I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My fathe...
LAINIE KAZAN![]()
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father did...
RUTH RENDELL![]()
I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was...
MARTINA MCBRIDE I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was bo...
MATT TAIBBI He loved language and found a medium to have to express himself with. That was one of best things. W...
ELLIOT JACOBOWITZ![]()
Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I ...
BRAD GORESKI I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ...
TONY SHALHOUB![]()
Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue coll...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD![]()
I was doing a show at the Comedy Store which Eddie Izzard saw, and we chatted for a bit afterwards. ...
TREVOR NOAH
FRANK GEHRY
I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he di... PATTI DAVIS
He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my fa... ANNE HECHE My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality b...
STEVE TISCH
My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if ther... DIANNA AGRON When I didn't go to church during my first two years in the NFL, I didn't know how it would ...
ERIC WEDDLE
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ...
CATHERINE TATE My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making wha...
ALAN C. GREENBERG
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h... JO NESBO My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he...
ROBERT RIPLEY My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passio...
LASSE HALLSTROM I was invited to a dinner party by an ex, and I was convinced that he wanted to rekindle our relatio...
CHRISSIE FIT My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go place...
FELICIA DAY
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if ... JOSEPH HELLER
Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa... PARIS JACKSON There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ...
CAROL VORDERMAN
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat... SIDNEY POITIER
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.
People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems... PALOMA PICASSO I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd tak...
BERNARD L. SCHWARTZ My father would go shopping, and he was supposed to buy loo roll or something, but he'd always c...
TOM PARKER BOWLES
At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He ... PRISCILLA PRESLEY He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.
PATRICK WARBURTON
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h... JODI PICOULT
It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of... LISA SNOWDON
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... EDMUND WHITE
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h... GREGG ALLMAN He was held there for a couple of months. Every day an officer would come onto the field with a loud...
EDMUNDO BOUDON Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words a...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT If (the driver) would have stopped, he could have helped my father-in-law. He always worked hard. He...
FRANCISCO GONZALEZ 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 an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but h... RALPH LAUREN When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN He was a real family man. Every Sunday he would cook up this big feast over at his house, and my wif...
GLENN KROLL My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was a...
VIKRAM ROHIT SHETTY My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because...
BRUCE FORSYTH
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren&#... WALTER MOSLEY
My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a write... TWINKLE KHANNA
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. ANNE SEXTON I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would wri...
BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL
He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, ... DEBBIE REYNOLDS 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 lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go any... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter...
SHIRIN NESHAT I can't see it being made as Danny's next fight. No way. If Anthony had any brains, he would do it, ...
JUSTIN MANOLIKOS My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it ...
PETE HAMILL
My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He li... PATTI SMITH My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground...
RONNIE DUNN
Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game. RYAN REYNOLDS I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ...
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he d... DAVID ROCKEFELLER I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid...
HERB RITTS He never sold anything for us. He was a distributor for us for six months.
JEFF WAGNER My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was alwa...
JENNIFER JOHNSTON
My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed ... CARRIE FISHER
My earliest memories as a kid was I would always try to make my mom and my stepdad laugh at dinner. ... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years...
IAN HISLOP My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ...
MARK BILLINGHAM My first celeb crush was Hanson. I loved all three of them. My sister and I would always fight, and ...
ASHLEY BENSON
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't... WALTER DEAN MYERS
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. E. W. HOWE
My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down tha... JOHN MORGRIDGE
My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, an... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a to... FRANKA POTENTE My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye...
DAMON WAYANS, JR. I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate ca...
CURT SCHILLING
My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in t... CLARENCE THOMAS
In politics, my role model would be a very weird one - our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was ... JOAQUIM BARBOSA He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape ...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE
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 could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a prin...
JOE ESZTERHAS
My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't hav... AL FRANKEN My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He wa...
ZOE WANAMAKER I met Robert Redford at the Golden Globes because he stepped on my foot. He stepped on my foot as he...
RETTA
My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he mad... TOMMY LEE
I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I t... STEVEN WRIGHT
Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And whe... ERIC MCCORMACK
I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and ... BEAR BRYANT
When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lo... MATTHEW QUICK
Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the b... LUPE FIASCO
Here's my take on Andy Kaufman... For Kaufman, comedy was a skill that was open for examination.... RHYS DARBY
It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at ... JOYCE MEYER He was there for everyone, and he would help till the ends of the earth. I would never change a thin...
FANNY HARVEY When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer ha...
TERRY J. LUNDGREN
I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate the... MATT SMITH
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat... DONALD TRUMP
While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important ... MUHTAR KENT I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My fathe...
LAINIE KAZAN
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father did...
RUTH RENDELL
I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was... MARTINA MCBRIDE I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was bo...
MATT TAIBBI He loved language and found a medium to have to express himself with. That was one of best things. W...
ELLIOT JACOBOWITZ
Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I ... BRAD GORESKI I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ...
TONY SHALHOUB
Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue coll... SUGAR RAY LEONARD
I was doing a show at the Comedy Store which Eddie Izzard saw, and we chatted for a bit afterwards. ... TREVOR NOAH
People come into your lives who you have a good time with, and time goes by and you still have a goo... 
Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source... 
Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sh... 
It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shu... 
I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy. 
I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - ... 
make an agreement to exercise mutual control over each other. The unspoken pact between them is, “... 
Half this game is 90% mental. 
Mr. and Mrs. McCartney are vegans, and what they stand for is the complete elimination of the killin... 
Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate t... 
I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and n... 
I love action films. I don't really like drama. 
To travel is to take a journey into yourself. 
I am a wife-made man. 
There is a danger in democracy itself. 