My cousin's dad is MC Hammer, and another one of my cousins is Zaytoven. We all grew up together and it's interesting to see how we turned out.
— Saweetie
I'm absolutely my dad's biggest fan, and anything he wanted to do, I wanted to be a part of.
— Sarah Huckabee Sanders
My family's a huge fan of 'Lord of the Rings.' My dad probably preaches from 'Lord of the Rings' as much as he does the Bible.
— Sarah Drew
I came up with the Enveloper when I was 20 and it took my dad and me several months to develop the initial concept into a working model.
— Sara Davies
I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.
— Saoirse Ronan
My dad died of a massive heart attack when he was 59, as he didn't look after himself.
— Sandi Toksvig
My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.
— Sam Smith
My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
— Sam Rockwell
My dad is a sculptor and a painter, and mum runs an art gallery, which sells beautiful jewelry and ceramics and paintings - local and international.
— Sam Palladio
My brother was a drummer, and he was always, like, smashing the kit around when I was a kid, and my dad was, like, one of them old musicians, and he played in, like, loads of different bands in the '70s and '80s. Him and my brother were kind of like my main inspirations.
— Sam Fender
I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
— Sam Elliott
Mum wasn't scared of dad but I'm sure she got fed up with him taking her for granted... When I look back it was an empty relationship but I doubt there was ever a question of them splitting up. It wasn't the done thing.
— Sam Allardyce
I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
— Sally Phillips
I remember very clearly when my dad first subscribed to HBO - 'Fraggle Rock' was a gamechanger.
— Sallie Patrick
When I was a kid, I worked as a clerk at my parent's motel. From when I was eight or nine, I rented rooms, helped with laundry, folding tons of towels. And then I also worked at my dad's gas station more as a young adult and as an adult.
— Sabaa Tahir
When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.
— Ryan Reynolds
I look back and see the integrity my dad had, but I didn't gravitate toward that. I don't see how I didn't.
— Ryan Leaf
There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill, near Monmouth, which was owned by my grandparents. They lived in the big house, but my dad had five brothers and a sister, and they all lived in various houses scattered on the hill.
— Saul David
Governor Pawlenty has the same conservative convictions and executive experience I admire in my dad.
Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.
— Sara Pascoe
My dad and I watched 'Amadeus' when I was 6, and I knew I wasn't going to be an engineer.
— Sara Chase
None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.
— Sanjay Dutt
My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.
— Sanaa Lathan
My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
— Sam Shepard
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from the States, so even in my family when I was growing up, my mom said I was the American one, and my dad said I was the weird African one.
— Sam Richardson
My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
— Sam Hunt
My mam and dad were blasting Steely Dan when I was born; the music hasn't stopped since then.
My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
— Sam Brownback
My dad would be down at the social club and my mum would be looking after us. Their time out together was limited to birthdays and, particularly being Scottish, to Hogmanay and Christmas.
I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
— Sally Hawkins
When I heard about the Windrush issue, I thought, 'That could be my mum... it could be my dad... it could be my uncle... it could be me.'
— Sajid Javid
I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.
— S. Robson Walton
My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.
— Ryan Lochte
I'm Mexican-American. My dad was actually born in Mexico. He was raised up there, and he came back and forth to America pretty much his whole teenage years. My mom is from Sacramento, California, and she's a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl. She's a whitey.
— Ryan Guzman
My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.
— Sasha Grey
My dad influenced my musical taste. I grew up listening to Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones and a bunch of rock music from the '60s. Now, instead of watching TV, I'll play a record from start to finish.
— Sarah Hay
Right from growing up I always wanted to be a teacher, but my dad discouraged me.
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
— Sara Blakely
In the 'Mad Men' era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie; and was - apparently - content.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.
— Samuel West
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.
My dad was a club musician. He was always playing guitar and playing loads of soul records and '60s rock n' roll. Whenever he used to cook, he used to play Donny Hathaway, Aretha Franklin, The Kinks, and the Spencer Davis Group - a lot of really earthy things.
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
— Sam Ewing
My dad was a pretty social animal when he wasn't working.
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
— Sam Abell
Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.
— Sage Stallone
If I did have a baby, I'd be the sort to want a year off just to be a dad.
— Rylan Clark-Neal
I'm very competitive. I remember being 4 years old trying to out-chug my dad in a milk-chugging contest. It's been in my blood.
