- Closest Thing
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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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- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a shop in Birmingham called Autographs, where I'm from in Birmingham. My uncles and dad used to shop there. They played professionally, too. When I started, I went to Autograph, and they had brands like Rick Owens. There are loads of brands, like my go-to brands that I will go to if I want to buy jeans, like DSquared or Balmain.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were very protective of me. Hockley had some crime, so my mum didn't want me out there, and my dad was the same. I would have to be in at a certain time, as there was a lot of violence surrounding our area.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a professional footballer before I was alive. When I was growing up, he was the one who coached and mentored me and helped me to become what I am today. Without his coaching and without his insight and the days and the hours that he put in with me, I wouldn't be the player that I am today.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's view about coaching was that you have to express yourself. When I was young at academies, I wasn't allowed to do that.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.
- Hotel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw 'The Shining' when I was too young with my dad in San Francisco in the hotel room.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a really cool guy, but he showed me 'The Shining,' and I was like, 'Hey, dad. I'm thirsty. Let's go get a Coke.' So we went to the vending machine, and he hid... and I turned back, and I was like, 'Dad? Dad?' And the elevator scene came to my mind.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
- Filter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum and dad were incredibly supportive - although I suspect my dad would have preferred me to go the university route. However, I know they were extremely proud when I won the 2011 BAFTA Best Actor for playing comedian Eric Morecambe in 'Eric and Ernie.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was born in 1930 in Lithuania, located in Eastern Europe. He was 9 years old when the war started, and his family was sent to the Kovno ghetto. They were soon separated and sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020