“It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.”
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“Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.”
“I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.”
“I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.”
“My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.”
“Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.”
“At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 magnum.”
“My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.”
“Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.”
“I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!”
“My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?”
“My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.”
“I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.”
“My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.”
“When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.”
“I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.”
“Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.”
“My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.”
“My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.”
“My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.”
“As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.”
“My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.”
“I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.”
“There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.”