3 December 2020 Bill Keller My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer’s mind-set: Everything’s kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?
3 December 2020 Tiger Woods Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
3 December 2020 Retief Goosen 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.
3 December 2020 Brendan Coyle My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn’t enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.
3 December 2020 Nia Vardalos 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.
3 December 2020 Gillian Anderson In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don’t think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.
3 December 2020 Robbie Coltrane My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there’s an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you’ve been a difficult teenager.
3 December 2020 Daniel Baldwin My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven’t been there for him… and that’s sad.
3 December 2020 Nicholas Hoult I’ve got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody’s equal.
3 December 2020 Ted Cruz My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That’s the world in which I grew up, and that’s a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
3 December 2020 Cameron Diaz My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won’t wait-you can kick their ass right now.
3 December 2020 Daniel Radcliffe I’m not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
3 December 2020 Wade Boggs Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
3 December 2020 Jason Ritter A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.
3 December 2020 Adam Sandler I never had a speech from my father ‘this is what you must do or shouldn’t do’ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.
3 December 2020 Amy Sedaris David and Dad didn’t get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn’t going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they’re like best friends.
3 December 2020 Chris Robinson If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would’ve said, ‘That’s not how it works.’ But nothing can be more gratifying. I’m a very hands-on dad.
3 December 2020 Kim Weston I didn’t want to travel. I didn’t want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn’t want that to happen.
3 December 2020 Michael J. Fox I’m a dad, I’m a husband, I’m an activist, I’m a writer and I’m just a student of the world.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Daley My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That’s what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.
3 December 2020 Wilt Chamberlain And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and – my father is a big fight fan – and I said, ‘Dad, I got a couple of days off and I’m getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.
3 December 2020 Ville Valo I didn’t have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.
3 December 2020 Sebastian Vettel I come from an ordinary family – my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker – and we’ve always loved racing together.
3 December 2020 Dan Fogelberg My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
3 December 2020 Jason Bateman I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.
