3 December 2020 David Rockefeller My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
3 December 2020 Tori Spelling It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, ‘Every kid doesn’t have snow in their backyard on Christmas?’
3 December 2020 Dick Clark Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
3 December 2020 Nigel Lythgoe And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It’s someone who’s protective. That’s all.
3 December 2020 Adele 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.’
3 December 2020 Gwyneth Paltrow My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
3 December 2020 Robbie Coltraine My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but ‘Harry Potter’, too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don’t you?
3 December 2020 Anthony Hopkins My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
3 December 2020 Kathryn Bigelow My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.
3 December 2020 Richard Marx But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
3 December 2020 Glenn Beck I’m the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.
3 December 2020 Rainn Wilson My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Rhys Meyers I was just a kid and I didn’t have a dad. That’s hard, because when you’re a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.
3 December 2020 Trey Parker I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.
3 December 2020 Kat Dennings I don’t think I’ve had a holiday in my entire life that wasn’t about my dad’s work.
3 December 2020 Rod Stewart What I do now is all my dad’s fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
3 December 2020 Joel Osteen I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
3 December 2020 Ace Frehley I asked my daughter when she was 16, What’s the buzz on the street with the kids? She’s going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren’t into Kiss. But they’ve all been told that it’s the greatest show on Earth.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Walker My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
3 December 2020 Dylan McDermott My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I’ve always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.
3 December 2020 Tim Vine One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you’ll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they’re both enjoying it.
3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It’s not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.
3 December 2020 Cameron Diaz I have to remind my dad, ‘Journalists – no matter how many cigars they smoke with you – are not your friends, so don’t talk to them.’
3 December 2020 Michael Shannon My dad used to say, ‘You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,’ and there’s some validity in it. But honestly, even when I’m inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.
