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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Along with being around the 'Roseanne' stuff, I've been following my mom and my dad back to Steppenwolf.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm acting, there are moments where I'm thinking, 'I sound like my mom when I say that,' or, 'I sound like my dad when I say that.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nine per cent of my viewers are men, of which the majority is, I think, 45 to 50. I like to tell myself it's just my dad watching.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hummingbirds are fun and flighty and strange. It's hard to keep them in one place, and Dad was a bit like that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether by my own volition or otherwise, I was given a year-and-a-half break after Dad passed. It was kind of like an elephant in the room, and everyone was giving me space, whether I wanted it or not.
- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's not a big talker.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched the Premier League every weekend with my dad - the highlight shows, everything.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad, Paul, is, like, my best friend.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.
- Brilliant
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is Mexican, and he grew up as a normal chauvinistic Mexican, and he expected my mom to do everything for him.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a loyal congressman until his death. The Congress didn't respect him after his death and filed cases against me.
- Baseball
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting was something fun that my dad did, but baseball is what he really wanted to do.
- Patient
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would consider my dad a pretty patient guy, but there was no tolerance for spoiled behavior.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came out, it didn't go well. My dad kicked me out. I ended up sleeping in my car.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both of my parents are actors and directors and whatnot. My dad loves really solid, old school, Broadway musicals, and one of them is 'Assassins' by Stephen Sondheim. All of the successful or non-successful assassins that have ever existed in the United States come together, and they talk about their killing or attempts through songs.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!
- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter doesn't love me because I'm on TV, she loves me because I'm her dad.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I concentrate on acting while my dad handles the business side of my career.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When two people break up, it's all about them; they can't see anyone else. And the people getting smashed to bits are the kids. Then you're getting torn - your mum wants you, your dad wants you. You just get shredded. It has a long-lasting effect as well.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked as an accountant in an auditor's office, at a textile showroom, a telephone booth, and a fast-food joint while studying. My dad found it odd, but he never interfered in any of my decisions.
- Delusional
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only benefit of my dad being in the film industry was that I got a reality check right from the start. I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be an actor just for the glamour.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a big Woody Hayes guy.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college, so I grew up with the gear in my house - like the sticks, the helmet.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really got to see my dad enjoy every day that he was working. Everybody should be able to have this much fun when they go to work.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad and I are, like, best friends.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a fiercely funny guy, and he and his brother would get on runs. So my younger brother and I were basically mimicking them when we started goofing off.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young, I wanted to be an actress.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like wearing my dad's sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My real name is Alfonso. My grandfather and dad are also Alfonso, so I was the third. So my mom just gave me the nickname Trey because I was the third.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was very adventurous. He'd go skin diving and come up with a shark under his arm. He was dashing and charismatic.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a meat peddler who drove a refrigerated truck. He bought his meat in Sheboygan, Wis., and sold it to stores in the region. He was a terrific salesman. People loved and trusted him, and he never let anyone down.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival... I learnt all those things from my dad.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, man, my dad used to buy me the Ted Williams glove at Sears with the Ted Williams shoes with the eight stripes on 'em. I used to play Little League, and I was Ted Williams-ed out.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever my dad wasn't working, he'd take me along to pass out biblical tracts on street corners or in visits to the local prison.
- British Museum
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a huge music and vinyl fan.
- Lebanese
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well my dad forced me into playing the violin when I was about three and it all started from there. I went to Suzuki for violin lessons, and you learn to play by ear instead of reading music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literally, over a weekend, Friday to Monday, I went from a C.I.A. officer to changing diapers and putting the kid in a Bjorn and going to the playground and hanging out with all the nannies. I was the only dad - everyone kind of gave me strange looks because of our sexist society.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.
- Mom And Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.
- Epidemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad and his brothers were involved in amateur dramatics. From an early age, I was dragged along to rehearsals when they couldn't get childcare. I was watching pensioners dance around in sweatpants, which was very traumatic for a young child.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020