3 December 2020 Christopher Meloni My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.
3 December 2020 Roger Federer My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
3 December 2020 Shirley Manson I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends’ parents were punks or hippies.
3 December 2020 Toni Braxton Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.
3 December 2020 Robert Moog To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.
3 December 2020 Sophie Ellis-Bextor I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I’ve inherited both sides.
3 December 2020 David Mitchell I’ve become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
3 December 2020 Adam Sandler The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
3 December 2020 Dusty Baker 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.
3 December 2020 Daniel Radcliffe My dad believes in God, I think. I’m not sure if my mom does. I don’t.
3 December 2020 Camryn Manheim One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
3 December 2020 Will Estes I’ve been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn’t want a 9-5 job.
3 December 2020 Ann Romney I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.
3 December 2020 Michael Weatherly When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me ‘Hollywood’ because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.
3 December 2020 Wayne Rooney Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
3 December 2020 Damian Lewis I’m not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I’m very close to.
3 December 2020 Jay London I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
3 December 2020 Christopher Walken Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He’s the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.
3 December 2020 Amanda Seyfried My dad, he is such a soft man. Even if he has these opinions about my boyfriends, he will be the sweetest guy. He will make you feel like you’re fascinating and awesome, even if he doesn’t like you that much.
3 December 2020 Victor Borge My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
3 December 2020 Gary Numan Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad’s way: you got a job and paid your way.
3 December 2020 Chris Robinson Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I’m a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
3 December 2020 Sofia Coppola A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He’d be a good film professor.
3 December 2020 David Boreanaz Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
