“I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.”
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“My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.”
“Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.”
“As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.”
“I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.”
“So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.”
“When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.”
“I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.”
“You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.”
“We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.”
“Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.”
“Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.”
“I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.”
“My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.”
“Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.”
“My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.”
“As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.”
“In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.”
“In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.”
“And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.”
“My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.”
“My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.”
“My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.”
“Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.”