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A Cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Wilde, Oscar | Dad

Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I'm dressed to kill in my own mind. They'll say to me, 'Dad, you're not going out there looking like that are you?' If that doesn't kill a star, I don't know what does!

Lionel Richie | Dad

You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.

Tom Felton | Dad

You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.

Richie Sambora | Dad

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

Courteney Cox | Dad

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

Mitt Romney | Dad

You know, I'm just - I'm really happy for my dad.

Nicole Richie | Dad

You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.

Shaun Alexander | Dad

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!

Sarah Hyland | Dad

You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.

Tim McGraw | Dad

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

Michael Reagan | Dad

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

Andre Agassi | Dad

You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

Gary Vaynerchuk | Dad

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

Ellie Goulding | Dad

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Dusty Baker | Dad

You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

Dhani Harrison | Dad

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

Johnny Vegas | Dad

You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.

Robert Griffin III | Dad

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

Miranda Lambert | Dad

Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.

Jeff Bridges | Dad

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

Jamie Moyer | Dad

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

Maria Sharapova | Dad

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

Geoffrey Rush | Dad

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Friedrich Nietzsche | Dad

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

Paul McCartney | Dad

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.

Rebecca Hall | Dad

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

Shahrukh Khan | Dad

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

Mel Torme | Dad

When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.

Eleanor Mondale | Dad

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

Brendan Fehr | Dad

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Friedrich Nietzsche | Dad

When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

Mitt Romney | Dad

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

Criss Angel | Dad

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

Rich Lowry | Dad

When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.

Dhani Harrison | Dad

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

Hope Davis | Dad

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

Rosanne Cash | Dad

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

Bruno Tonioli | Dad

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

Paris Hilton | Dad

When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.

Heidi Klum | Dad

When I was younger it was - you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.

Colin Hanks | Dad

When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.

Leona Lewis | Dad

When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me.

Jenna Ushkowitz | Dad

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

Danica McKellar | Dad

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

Mireille Enos | Dad

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

Natalie Portman | Dad

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

Tom Hooper | Dad

When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.

Warwick Davis | Dad

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

Ron White | Dad

When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!'

Georgia Jagger | Dad

When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.

Michael Weatherly | Dad

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

Tim McGraw | Dad

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

David Alan Grier | Dad

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

Lou Brock | Dad

When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.

Joe Frazier | Dad

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Yani Tseng | Dad

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

Frank Butler | Dad

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

Nia Vardalos | Dad

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

Paul Theroux | Dad

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

Fantasia Barrino | Dad

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

Rip Torn | Dad

When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.

Lisa Guerrero | Dad

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

Louise Brown | Dad

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Robert Bly | Dad

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

Charlie Sheen | Dad

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Rod Stewart | Dad

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

Terence | Dad

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

Dweezil Zappa | Dad

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

Harry Connick, Jr. | Dad

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

Max Cannon | Dad

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

Edward Burns | Dad

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

Retief Goosen | Dad

We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.

Lil' Romeo | Dad

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

Trisha Yearwood | Dad

We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.

Ashley Scott | Dad

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

Marcy Kaptur | Dad

We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.

Kenny Loggins | Dad

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

Peter Agre | Dad

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.

Shaun White | Dad

We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.

Jack Bruce | Dad

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.

Tom Brady | Dad

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

Beau Bridges | Dad

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

Cindy Crawford | Dad

Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.

Stacie Orrico | Dad

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace | Dad

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.

Corey Hart | Dad

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

Robert Moog | Dad

To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 and I see this random group of girls staring at me and taking pictures. But now I usually have my dad, who is a really tall and intimidating person with me, so he's kind of my bodyguard.

Rebecca Black | Dad

Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.

Marla Maples | Dad

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.

Kurt Busch | Dad

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

Anthony Quinn | Dad

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

Tatum O'Neal | Dad

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

Sebastian Bach | Dad

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Dean Koontz | Dad

There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.

Shailene Woodley | Dad

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

Steve Irwin | Dad

There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

Arne Duncan | Dad

There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.

Owen Hart | Dad

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Gertrude Stein | Dad

There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'

Adele | Dad

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

Norah Jones | Dad