889 private quotes tagged dad

“I'm a good dad I spend a lot of time with my kids.”— Steve Zahn

“The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.”— Evangeline Lilly

“When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.”— Fantasia Barrino

“You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.”— Richie Sambora

“I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.”— Richie Sambora

“My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.”— Jonathan Krohn

“Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.”— Mel Torme

“I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.”— Patrick Rothfuss

“If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.”— Eric San

“My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.”— Daniel Baldwin

“I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that.”— Christina Hendricks

“My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.”— Scott Stapp

“Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.”— Richie Sambora

“My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.”— Thomas Jane

“I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.”— Max Irons

“My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.”— Dakota Fanning

“I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.”— Mary Cheney

“I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.”— Jeff Koons

“We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.”— Marcy Kaptur

“But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.”— Lily Allen

“Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.”— Ricky Martin

“My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.”— Mireille Enos

“My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.”— Shane MacGowan

“My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.”— Isabel Lucas

“My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.”— James Wood