My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.
— Ryan Giggs
As a kid, watching your dad leave, that's pretty powerful.
— Ryan Frazier
I love being a dad, and I'm a great dad.
— Russell Peters
My dad says I was an extra in 'Die Hard.' I think it's true.
— Rumer Willis
My dad owns a company that lends equipment to industrial projects. I've been obsessed with taking it over since I could talk. I'd follow him and repeat conversations about how many tons of cranes were arriving. He said it was a man's world, so I studied electrical engineering because it was related.
— Ruchi Sanghvi
Dad endorsed my learning to fly so he would have a live-in pilot, one he could get in touch with at any time.
— Ross Perot, Jr.
I don't think I have any guilt or embarrassment about any of the TV shows I watch. Maybe the fact that the shows I can watch over and over again are cartoons like 'Bob's Burgers' and 'American Dad' and 'Rick & Morty.'
— Ross Butler
Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.
— Rose Leslie
When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.
— Rosanne Cash
When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.
— Rory Kinnear
My dad raised me on metal, but my first serious love was hip-hop.
— Ronnie Radke
Dad was a baker, and Mum was tied up with church and the social club.
— Ronnie Corbett
So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.
— Ron Perlman
My family is all obsessed with comedy. I grew up watching a lot of comedy in the house. I used to watch Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy with my dad. But my mom is more into slapstick stuff.
— Romesh Ranganathan
One day, I brought home Eddie Murphy's 'Raw', and Dad and I would watch that together.
My dad always taught me if I have my education, anything is possible.
— Romeo Miller
Whenever we went on a trip, picnic, or business trip, I was always with my dad, and I would just always be in contact with cosmonauts, and I thought it would be always normal to be with them.
— Roman Romanenko
Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.
My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'
— Russell Wilson
My dad was the funniest guy I ever knew.
I mourn for the kind of dad I didn't have; I rue my first broken family while taking joy in the one that I've made.
— Rumaan Alam
My dad produces good footballers.
— Ruben Loftus-Cheek
The real estate business was something Dad and I could do together.
Along with my dad, my mother's pretty high up there. She's a star! Her interests are so diverse - she's an art collector and a sports enthusiast.
— Roshni Nadar
Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.
My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.
— Rory McIlroy
Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.
My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.
— Ronnie O'Sullivan
I'm a good dad. I'm proud of that.
— Ronan Keating
My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.
— Ron Carlson
When I started doing stand-up, I resigned from my job as a maths teacher and, three days before I was due to leave, my dad passed away.
Actually, the reason I'm a huge Arsenal fan is because when my dad moved over from Sri Lanka, he lived in north London and fell in love with Arsenal. Then he moved to East Grinstead and bought a pub, which he turned into an Arsenal pub.
We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.
Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.
— Roman Coppola
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
I was so envious of everyone who went to Sylvia Young Theatre School. I wanted to go, but my dad flat-out refused. He thought I'd become some tapdancing freak without qualifications. And he was right in a way. I'm glad I didn't go. That might have changed.
— Russell Tovey
I was born in India, and we came from a poor family and lived in a rural village. My dad came over to Canada as a refugee, and years later, we were able to join him.
— Rupi Kaur
My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.
— Rufus Wainwright
My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.
— Roy Orbison
I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books.
— Ross Kemp
When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.
— Roseanne Barr
Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.
I used to go to Sheen High Street with my dad on a Saturday, and there was a butcher next door to the fishmonger. I hated the smell of the fishmonger, but I found the smell of the butcher's much more appealing. And I liked the big knives. I thought it looked like a decent job.
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
— Ronnie Wood
I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.
— Ronnie Dunn
When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
— Ron White
I only started singing at about 15, and it came as quite a surprise to my dad.
— Romy Madley Croft
Mum came to Crawley from Sri Lanka at 19 after marrying my dad. Later, Dad had financial problems and they split for a while.
My dad started his business, No Limit, for himself.
My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.
