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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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From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
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I wanted to be a violin-maker like my dad, and then I wanted to be a doorman in my building.
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I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.
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My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dancer. He was jettisoned from the family before I was 2, and I have never met him and have no memory of him.
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Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.
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I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.
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My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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I always remember what my dad told me when I decided to turn into an actor. He was emphatic that whatever I do, I should get accepted by the audiences who watch my films.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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I grew up, from ages 8 to 18, watching reruns of 'Star Trek' with my dad and my mom when they got home from work.
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I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.
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