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3 December 2020 Frank Butler

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he’d learned in three years.

3 December 2020 Damon Wayans

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

3 December 2020 Alan Cumming

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that’s a good grounding for a balanced life.

3 December 2020 Mira Sorvino

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

3 December 2020 Bob Balaban

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school – he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

3 December 2020 Kris Allen

I’ve always wanted to be a dad.

3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf

I didn’t know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

3 December 2020 Slash

My dad is a huge rock n’ roll lead guitar fan.

3 December 2020 Shaun Alexander

I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.

3 December 2020 Jamie Redknapp

Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.

3 December 2020 Ezra Koenig

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

3 December 2020 Sean Penn

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I’m a hands-on father.

3 December 2020 Vince Gill

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we’d play together.

3 December 2020 Dweezil Zappa

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad’s band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

3 December 2020 Steve Irwin

There’s a lot of research behind the scenes that you don’t get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

3 December 2020 Emily VanCamp

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they’re immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

3 December 2020 Luke Bryan

From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

3 December 2020 David Cassidy

As a father, I do everything my dad didn’t do. My son Beau’s birth changed my life.

3 December 2020 Barbara Castle

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

3 December 2020 Dweezil Zappa

I liked a lot of the things other people liked – Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC – but if I compared it to my dad’s music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

3 December 2020 Liam Gallagher

I didn’t always want to be a dad.

3 December 2020 Robert Bly

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

3 December 2020 Scott Stapp

My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn’t have anything left to give.

3 December 2020 Michael Reagan

I think he would have been proud and smiling… when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

3 December 2020 Enid Bagnold

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

3 December 2020 Miley Cyrus

I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he’s still 17.

3 December 2020 Wayne Rooney

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

3 December 2020 Monica Seles

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

3 December 2020 Rip Torn

When I grew up, people said, ‘You’ll never be the man your dad was.’ And I said, ‘Gee, I hope not.’

3 December 2020 Teresa Palmer

I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I’d spend a quiet week with my mum, then I’d go to my dad’s property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.

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