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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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- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both of my parents are actors and directors and whatnot. My dad loves really solid, old school, Broadway musicals, and one of them is 'Assassins' by Stephen Sondheim. All of the successful or non-successful assassins that have ever existed in the United States come together, and they talk about their killing or attempts through songs.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!
- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter doesn't love me because I'm on TV, she loves me because I'm her dad.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I concentrate on acting while my dad handles the business side of my career.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When two people break up, it's all about them; they can't see anyone else. And the people getting smashed to bits are the kids. Then you're getting torn - your mum wants you, your dad wants you. You just get shredded. It has a long-lasting effect as well.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked as an accountant in an auditor's office, at a textile showroom, a telephone booth, and a fast-food joint while studying. My dad found it odd, but he never interfered in any of my decisions.
- Delusional
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only benefit of my dad being in the film industry was that I got a reality check right from the start. I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be an actor just for the glamour.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020