- Insane
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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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- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Scotland, Dad grew courgettes which were the size of my leg. I'd step into the garden and it was like 'The Day of the Triffids.'
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and Saturn and meteor showers.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of working professionals: my dad is a chartered accountant, and my mom is a professor.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to be a dad.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to play Donna Karan. I used my dad's home office, and Kim was my assistant. Then one of our friends would play a buyer, and I would take her to my mom's closet and show her the new collection.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020