- Disillusioned
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a dad is best thing you can do, it's very exciting.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad played a character on the radio called 'Parkyakarkus.' A Greek-dialect comedian. He did Friars' roasts and wrote material and made people laugh that way. But he wrote his own shows with other writers.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad died right after performing at the Friars' roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have that tape somewhere. There's still a lot of good jokes in there. I mean, that was 1958.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'The Goods,' I'm Ed Helms' dad, and I was known all those years as Kirk Cameron's father, and now I'm known as Robin Thicke's father, so I find myself playing myself a lot and, frankly, living up to expectations of what the public's image of me is.
- Distasteful
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not a racist bone in my dad's body. He doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes.
- Father's Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
- Nov 07, 2020