Quotes About Father

I've never played for my dad. I played against my dad actually in high school. That was fun, but he taught me how to play the game the right way. Respect the game, give it all you've got and regardless of what happens, have no regrets.

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

I'm just a pretty regular dad.

I'm a big believer in regularity. My father taught me that. Get up early, get your work done, and that's, what, your highest level of energy before lunch.

The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. 'You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor,' he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

My dad had been very absent, even when he was there. Then he left the family and moved away. Our relationship, it feels to me, ended when I was 13.

I am blessed that I can call Mithun Dad my father. We don't share a father-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship, ours is just like any father-daughter's bond.

I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

My choice of this business, and that I relatively enjoy innovation and research, is greatly related to my father.

Being the son of a father who works so hard, I always wanted to be able take a lot of load off of my dad so he can just relax.

My dad is not really a relaxed guy. He's nervous. He wants to do everything. But I am completely opposite to him. I am calm.

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

I am very happy for the respect shown towards my father, Raj Kapoor-ji, the greatest showman of Hindi cinema.

My dad was an early hip-hop fan.

I was in my hippie stage. It was tough for my father. First it was the long hair, then the bubbles.

Directors have good and bad movies. My father also made some flop movies, and he had bigger hits, too. That should not determine anything.

My father said, 'You're not going to make it.' That took a lot of pressure from me. I took football like a hobby.

My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.'

My father played hockey until he was 18.

I grew up watching film shootings as I always accompanied my father during my holidays. So I was not scared about facing the camera nor did I go to any acting classes.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.