3 December 2020 Dean Norris My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
3 December 2020 Bruno Tonioli When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.
3 December 2020 Kylie Minogue The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I’ve got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I’m getting on a plane.
3 December 2020 Chief Joseph I pressed my father’s hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
3 December 2020 Miranda Lambert I’ve dated all kinds of guys and didn’t know who I’d end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not.
3 December 2020 Shane MacGowan My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.
3 December 2020 Leona Lewis I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.
3 December 2020 Charley Pride I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
3 December 2020 Jonny Lang My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band – one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.
3 December 2020 Samuel L. Jackson My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter’s life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
3 December 2020 George Eads Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life… It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I’m a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.
3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison I don’t really plan to be a pop star I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.
3 December 2020 Angela Carter Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
3 December 2020 Marcy Kaptur We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.
3 December 2020 Kris Allen My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.
3 December 2020 Karrie Webb It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
3 December 2020 Christian Bale My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
3 December 2020 T-Pain My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
3 December 2020 Oliver Hudson Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don’t mean anything.
3 December 2020 Dierks Bentley My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you’re constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.
3 December 2020 Jason Ritter Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.
3 December 2020 Chris Hemsworth My dad works in child protection and he’s spent many, many years in that line of work.
3 December 2020 Max Cannon Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.
3 December 2020 Eric Bana When you’re shooting a film, you really don’t get to be a dad, and you don’t really get to be a husband. You don’t really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Hurley I don’t know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.
3 December 2020 Lee Westwood My dad said: ‘It looks like you’ll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.’
3 December 2020 Skeet Ulrich My mom’s been married three times my dad has been married a lot. I didn’t really see my dad that much.
3 December 2020 Anthony Quinn Thirteen, 13 children, and I love – I love them all. And I think I’ve been a good father to all of them.
