Quotes About Father

My father is my father, and I am me. I have the advantage of this honest comparison, quiet, and the opportunity to share in his profession.

I'd watch the news with my dad, and he'd quietly mock the anchors. An anchorman might say, 'Police are searching for...' and my dad would say in the anchorman's voice, 'the man who gave me this haircut.' This was in the real Ron Burgundy '70s. And I would laugh and start doing it myself.

I think my father is nearly perfect. I think he's quite handsome, except a bit fat.

I feel fortunate to have a huge family that is beyond race, creed, culture, and have a Father who shepherds us all. When I think about that, my mind is blown.

Me and my dad, we'd go to the dirt bike races every year. I mean we'd go probably too much every year. And he would make me listen to all country music.

My father was a racetrack bookie.

I think my love of cars came from my dad, when I was much younger. Before my dad spent all his money on my racing, he had some nice cars. And my grandfathers had nice cars.

My dad had no interest in motorbikes at all. It didn't come up on his radar.

My dad... was in the military, a drill sergeant, when he was a preacher. You know how some Christians really get into church and become very radical? Imagine him as a radical and a drill sergeant. It was intense.

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.

I can see parts of my father in 'Kingdom' when I rage like that. I can see my father's frustrations in his life.

We need a father to rage against.

I understood rage from my dad, who was an exquisite blend of rage and generosity of spirit.

The closest encounter I had with films in my childhood was sitting on the lap of my father at a shooting set, and he would say 'rain,' and it started raining, and then he would say 'song,' and people started dancing. I thought I was sitting on God's lap.

It's so crazy: my mom and dad divorced when I was 11, and my fondest memories are in the Philippines and being raised by my mom. It's such a big part of my life.

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.

My dad was a real fun guy, and despite his personal problems, he was a great father. It wasn't easy, but he did a good job of raising my sister Mary and I all by himself.

I had no idea at two or three years of age that my dad was a rally driver and he was doing doughnuts around the world.

My earliest political memory is of attending, in 1975, a tub-thumping campaign rally with my father in Adelaide.