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He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
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And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor...
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I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my fath...
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ALFRED MOLINA My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job...
ALFRED MOLINA 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 was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I t...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel tha...
MARTIN CLUNES
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto... SHERRI SHEPHERD I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough,...
WHITNEY CUMMINGS My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre...
RAM KAPOOR [Sure enough, after he threw a costly end-zone interception in Week 4 against the Browns, Stewart lo...
KORDELL STEWART I was leading off the inning, and the count was 2-0, so I was pretty sure he was going to throw a st...
ANDY SLYKE I was leading off the inning, and the count was 2-0, so I was pretty sure he was going to throw a st...
ANDY VAN SLYKE
My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he mad... TOMMY LEE My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM
The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. ... MICHAEL WEATHERLY
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY
I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I though... CHIWETEL EJIOFOR
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that,...
CICELY TYSON
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and w...
FAIRUZA BALK Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had cons...
FRED F. FIELDING
My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be fu... CAROL LEIFER
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scou...
ED BEGLEY, JR.
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor... RENE AUBERJONOIS
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn&... TOM WOLFE I think there's a reason he has come back to Utah, ... For some reason, I got a second ...
AMY HALL I think there's a reason he has come back to Utah, ... For some reason, I got a second chance to liv...
AMY HALL I think he didn't feel like he needed any assistance, ... I think he felt that with his Notre Dame b...
TYRONE WILLINGHAM James met me at the door, and I think he pulled my bags right in out of the car, ... The thing I rem...
STEWART ADAMS
The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the sa... JOHN COREY WHALEY
My attention was riveted to Keirran.He shot me a pained, embarrassed wince. “Yeah. I was goi...
JULIE KAGAWA
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... EDMUND WHITE When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voic...
DAVID SUCHET So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to ...
PATRICK J. ADAMS We knew he was going sooner or later. And that's what he wanted to do.
ALICE F. JONES
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle p... PAUL RYAN With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
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HELEN NILES
He told me basically that he was pretty sure, real sure that he had the guy that kidnapped my daught... DAVID BAILEY It was difficult. Me and Pierre, a lot of people don't know that me and Pierre were real tight last ...
BRIAN JACKSON
My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he... PAIGE VANZANT My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer ha...
TERRY J. LUNDGREN
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ... JOE GIBBS
...My father muttered something to me, and I responded with a mumbled "What". He shouted, "You heard... STEVE MARTIN
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade... JUDITH VIORST From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY I think it was a little bit unfair for me because I didn't know what was going on. For (Brown) to co...
CARMELO ANTHONY It wasn't 30 minutes after he enlisted in the Navy that he found out he would be going to Iraq. I ju...
AMY DULWORTH He was Kobe Bryant tonight. I was pretty sure he wanted to come back at us because we pretty much hu...
ANDRE IGUODALA
My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylight... DIANA GABALDON
My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough... VINCE VAUGHN
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor... RENE AUBERJONOIS He'll never be here for me to grow old with. He was my life. He was my love. He was my heart and sou...
ARMY SGT.
I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my fath... STEVEN SPIELBERG My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the...
GARRY HYNES My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He bro...
JOSEPH ABBOUD I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero...
DAVE BRUBECK I like James Franco. I think he's really cute. I remember a while ago there was a rumor going ar...
MIRANDA COSGROVE He always left a nice drink for me. He was just like a father to me, although he never spoke my name...
LEO LATLIP
My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down tha... JOHN MORGRIDGE
My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that... ORLANDO BLOOM Later that night, I was flying. I asked him what was going on and he told me that he put some dope i...
DANIEL BROWN When he was little, I made sure my son, Aaron, met James and listened to our conversations. I wanted...
DALE MAYS
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he want... RODNEY DANGERFIELD I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pret...
ADAM FERRARA I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.
CHRIS BURKE
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the fa... AL SHARPTON My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...
CHUCK CLOSE My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called...
ED BRADLEY
Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in th... MARA WILSON I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted ...
KAROLYN GRIMES
I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my fathe... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
He swaggered over to my mother, and kissed her so long and slow that my own cheeks started to burn, ... JODI PICOULT
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h... JO NESBO
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store a... SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store a... SHIRLEY TEMPLE
I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I w... MICHAEL HEIZER
Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinne... DONNA RICE My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs...
SHANE WARNE
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN
I had convinced my father to let me pursue this career, and I passionately wanted it. And here was t... GEORGE TAKEI
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS
For me, it was hard in a different way than with Heath. Because I think Heath was kind of constantly... JAKE GYLLENHAAL In 2003 the blackmail started. He started calling me and first said he was a private investigator. I...
KIRK TALLEY
I thought about him going into my mom's when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her re... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Something happened during Matt's talk. When I sat down I was one person, but by the time he was done...
SUSAN AUTEN I was scouted by this talent scout back home. She found me because I used to make my dad these CDs o...
BRIANNA HILDEBRAND Sooner or later, the water would start to drip down to the floor. He kept getting kicked out of all ...
JOE LAPCHICK
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h... JODI PICOULT He probably could have gotten out of going just because he has a newborn son. But he said, 'No, I ha...
PAUL MONTGOMERY I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they h...
AHMET ZAPPA My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making wha...
ALAN C. GREENBERG Todd (Bodine) was really strong and he ran a really smart race. I just had to make sure I kept them ...
MARK MARTIN
When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known ... WYNTON MARSALIS
Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game... MARIO LEMIEUX I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for i...
ROGER WATERS
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