3 December 2020 Ahmet Zappa I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we’d have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.
3 December 2020 Wally Schirra Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Ellison I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
3 December 2020 Chely Wright I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
3 December 2020 Larry Hagman I’d like to play Matt Damon’s daddy. He’s a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I’d like to play his dad one day.
3 December 2020 William Hurt Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he’s pretty good at paying the rent.
3 December 2020 Mickey Spillane My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I’ve got all these names… but my Dad always called me Mick.
3 December 2020 Caroline Wozniacki My dad has always been my coach. And I’ve spent so much time with him. So he’s one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.
3 December 2020 Slash My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn’t even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.
3 December 2020 Billy Sherwood So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
3 December 2020 Nick Offerman I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.
3 December 2020 Tom Glazer My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.
3 December 2020 Mia Love Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.
3 December 2020 August Strindberg That is the thankless position of the father in the family – the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
3 December 2020 Jennie Finch And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, ‘If you want it bad enough, and you’re willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself.
3 December 2020 Hope Davis When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.
3 December 2020 Scott Bakula I’ve always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He’s retired now. My brother is a lawyer.
3 December 2020 Randy Travis My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.
3 December 2020 Olivia Thirlby I love to cook. My dad’s a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
3 December 2020 Stuart Appleby If a cow walked into this room, I’d probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.
3 December 2020 Pope John XXIII It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
3 December 2020 Tony Dungy But there’s no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
3 December 2020 Joan Cusack I think there’s nothing better than laughing in life, so that’s nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It’s ’cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that’s fine.
