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Dad Quotes
The small stuff you inherit.
These dad quotes lean into small, specific memories — watching Monty Python over dinner, catching yourself sounding just like him mid-sentence, or joking that most of your audience is really just your father. For humor along the same lines, see our Jokes page.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad's message - his legacy - lives on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists - Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were driving by the local athletic association in Orange Park, Florida, and there was this sign for T-ball signups. I was maybe 6 or 7, and my dad looked at me and said, 'Hey, do you wanna give this a try?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad has to motivate you until you actually realize what you're doing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time on film sets with my dad at work, and as a kid, that's a very appealing thing, to watch grownups get to play dress-up and pretend that they're different people - and then get paid for it!
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never really been a television watcher and watched comedies, and I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television as the dad.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to wear my dad's shoes to auditions as sort of a lucky thing. I feel like I'm on solid ground.
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- Nov 07, 2020