Quotes About Father

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

Father, I love you,yet how can I say thank you, I who can't hold my liquor eitherand don't even know the places to fish.

I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.

I didn't actually get along with my dad when I was growing up, so by the time I was in my 20s, I didn't think I was going to be a writer.

I'm lucky that I was born to these parents. I'm lucky that my dad wanted to be around me, that he took me to all these National League cities by the time I was 12.

I take after my dad in the calm and measured way he approaches situations.

My dad used to be a goalie. He actually won a bronze medal with Team Canada in 1956.

My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.

It would just be nice to buy my dad a caravan.

I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.

Once, Dad had too much beer and had to be carried home.

My father was a dreamer who was always broke. He wanted to be a cartoonist.

Dad is very chilled out. So, whether it's his makeup or hair, he is very casual about such things. He has his own style and is very cool that way.

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

It's funny, I see my dad in myself when I say certain things or I do certain things. I'll say, 'That was my dad right there.'

My dad was a midfielder, like I am, and he was good, too. When I saw him playing as I got older, I could see he really knew how to play. He didn't have all the chances to grow and have a great career that I got, but he did what he could.

My dad was a regular dad. At home, he wasn't Bonzo the animal. He was a very intellectual, quiet chap - not the beast we all know.

My dad always told me that I should have been an actress, but that wasn't really my main focus. I really love to be the director, the person in charge, making my fantasy come to life. But if I love someone else's fantasy, I'll definitely help them bring theirs to life, too.

My father, Rex, was one of the most charismatic human beings I've ever known, and also one of the most brilliant.

When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.

Most of my childhood, my father was hardly around.

My earliest childhood memories are of my dad putting a basketball in my hand and playing with me in our backyard.

I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them.