My dad had been in the second world war, had electric shock treatment, suffered from anxiety and was abusive to my mum. I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn't even be bothered to get out of bed.
— Roland Orzabal
I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.
— Roger Craig Smith
I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.
— Rod Stewart
I've got to give props to my dad. He got me into the UFC and the MMA scene to begin with.
— Robert Whittaker
There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played flamenco guitar. Soon I realized that bass was what was really grooving me.
— Robert Trujillo
I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
— Robert Rodriguez
My family was pretty solidly middle-class. We had a furniture store out near Connie Mack Stadium, and when Dad died, my mom took it over.
— Robert Picardo
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.
— Robert Jarvik
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.
— Robert Englund
It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.
— Robert Creeley
My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in.
— Robbie Williams
My dad did everything he could. It was a start-up, and the banks didn't want to lend him enough money, so he mortgaged our house.
— Rob Portman
My entire tenth grade year, my dad was in a coma. That changes a person. It changes a kid. It makes you ridiculously independent.
— Rob Liefeld
On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.
— Rob Delaney
It's hard losing a parent, especially dad because he was always behind me. It was his dream and my dream for me to become a footballer.
— Riyad Mahrez
I can't sing anything like my dad.
— Rohan Marley
I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.
— Robert Webb
My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.
— Robert Stromberg
I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.
— Robert Redford
My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.
— Robert Pattinson
As a kid, my dad moved us to the upper town, which was in a higher class of people, and we would see the lower town below. Every day, we could see where we came from and where we were now.
— Robert Lepage
My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.
One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.
— Robert Griffin III
I grew up with a lot of people whose whole prime mover was dad rage. I never really had it - it always seemed so empty. It always seemed to be masking something else, which was really their own lack of initiative.
— Robert Downey, Jr.
There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it's hard to go there. I didn't sit down and go, 'I want to write something about my dad now.'
— Robert Coppola Schwartzman
My dad's a jeweller, and my mom works for a bank.
— Robbie Amell
No one knows this, but my dad can sing his face off.
— Rob McClure
Arthur is my middle name; George is my dad's middle name.
— Rob Kardashian
I was shy: I sang at home but not in public. My dad's side of the family sang, so I would hear their voices and think mine couldn't compare.
— Ro James
I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.
— Rivers Cuomo
My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.
— Roger Deakins
My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
Everything I learned about the game of baseball, I learned from my dad.
— Roberto Alomar
My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.
I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.
— Robert Scoble
My dad played fiddle as well.
— Robert Plant
To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.
— Robert Moog
My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.
There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.
— Robert Kennedy, Jr.
I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.
I've always been interested in Catholic iconography. My dad's from Naples and I was brought up in a Roman Catholic school.
— Robert Del Naja
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
— Robert Carlyle
No one in my family had ever been in politics. My dad thought it was something that got in the way.
My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.
— Rob Lowe
Our dad introduced us to all of it - to the weights, to eating healthy, all that good stuff. He introduced it, got on us every once in a while, and left it up to us if we wanted to do it. And seeing my older brothers do it right in front of me, I wanted to do it because I looked up to them.
— Rob Gronkowski
My dad... was in the military, a drill sergeant, when he was a preacher. You know how some Christians really get into church and become very radical? Imagine him as a radical and a drill sergeant. It was intense.
