Dad Quotes - page 63

My dad said, "What the heck is software?" and my mom said, "Why would a person ever need a computer?" They said, "OK, OK, we hear you, but if it doesn't work out, you'll go back to business school right?" And I said "Right," and I never came back. (Steve Ballmer)

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

Dolph Lundgren

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

Iggy Pop

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

Clive Owen

I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.

Leona Lewis

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

Leona Lewis

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

Gloria Estefan

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

Kim Kardashian

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you.'

Kim Kardashian

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

Marilyn Manson

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe. (Marilyn Manson)

Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

Billy Crystal

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

Dave Mustaine

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

Dave Mustaine

There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.

Seth MacFarlane

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

Seth MacFarlane

The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.

Willem Dafoe

My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.

Willem Dafoe

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

Jennifer Lawrence

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

Marcia Cross

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school. (Nick Clegg)

I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.

Nick Clegg

My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

Adam Lambert

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

Rachel McAdams

My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

Zooey Deschanel

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