3 December 2020 Bill Gates Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.
3 December 2020 Andre Dubus III One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I’ve had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I’ve brought readers to my dad’s work. I can’t tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father’s work was masterful.
3 December 2020 Ted Nugent Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.
3 December 2020 Sam Rockwell My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she’s a painter.
3 December 2020 Gwen Stefani My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.
3 December 2020 George Clooney I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad’s sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
3 December 2020 Liam Neeson I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I’m acting. It’s always, ‘When I say you’ll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?’ Then, ‘Yeah, Dad.’
3 December 2020 Poppy Z. Brite My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery – which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
3 December 2020 Susana Martinez My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney 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.
3 December 2020 Barry White I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn’t. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You’re looking at a real daddy.
3 December 2020 Jenny Eclair After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad’s Army shirts, accessorised by a cat’s basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.
3 December 2020 Hale Irwin My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
3 December 2020 Matthew Morrison My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.
3 December 2020 Ernie Harwell Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
3 December 2020 David Bowie And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
3 December 2020 Geraldine Brooks Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.
3 December 2020 Samuel West I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.
3 December 2020 Tom Felton 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.
3 December 2020 Gary Oldman ‘Nil By Mouth’ was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that’s not my dad.
3 December 2020 Matt Groening I think ‘Family Guy’ and ‘American Dad’ have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that ‘The Simpsons’ is taking jokes from ‘Family Guy.’ And I can tell you, that ain’t the case.
3 December 2020 Steven Gerrard I watched Italia ’90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on… It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.
3 December 2020 Jason Sudeikis A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.
3 December 2020 Paul Giamatti It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I’m going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.
3 December 2020 Joe Frazier 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.
3 December 2020 Paul Walker I’m into being a dad, that’s where my focus is most of the time. I’m an actor that’s my job, but it’s not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.
