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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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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.
- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I speak to my dad and my wife, and friends, they say it's 10 years at West Ham, you're leading the team out every week, when you sit back and really think about it, it's very rare.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 4, my dad let me 'help' him back out of the driveway, but I'm amazing at driving golf carts.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020