I was even more of a fan of Jake The Snake than I was of my dad when I was a kid, and that's because of the snake. Jake used to have his snake, Damien, out in the locker room slithering around the showers. In the locker room, they would actually block off one of the showers just so Damien could roll around, and I'd sit there and watch him.
— Randy Orton
Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
— Randy Harrison
The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
— Rand Paul
My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
— Ram Kapoor
Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
— Ram Charan
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
— Rainn Wilson
Performing for my dad does drive me on. Especially in big games, massive games.
— Raheem Sterling
Being on time is a practice I imbibed from my dad. He would be ready with make-up on at least three hours ahead of schedule.
— Radha Ravi
'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
— Rachel Sklar
My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
— Rachel Platten
I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'
— Rachel Keller
My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.
— Rachel Boston
I'm a parent, I gotta be a super dad.
— R-Truth
When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in.
— Priyanka Chopra
I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.
— Princess Eugenie of York
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
— Pope John XXIII
To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
— Randy Houser
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
— Randeep Hooda
My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.
I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
My mom's not working, my dad doesn't want to stop working because he likes to be engrossed, so everybody is happy.
— Raftaar
My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
— Rachel Zoe
Dad could speak with a strong voice. And luckily, he was very good at lip-reading, so he was able to disguise his deafness well. He tried various hearing aids but would find them fiddly and uncomfortable, and worse, they often made horrible high-pitched noises.
— Rachel Shenton
My dad, before he passed away, never understood what I did. What I say is that I'm responsible for translating the director's vision, hopefully turning an idea into something people can connect to and relate to.
— Rachel Morrison
I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
— Rachel Joyce
My dad's Scottish, and I always used to say I was, too.
— Rachael Stirling
I have my dad's shape. No booty.
— Queen Latifah
My dad doesn't know that much about cricket, but he has watched so many years of cricket.
— Prithvi Shaw
My uncle is an actor, my dad is a producer, so they asked me if I was interested, and I was like, 'How can someone act in front of so many people with lights and emote.'
— Prabhas
In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.
— Phillipa Soo
It's funny, I see my dad in myself when I say certain things or I do certain things. I'll say, 'That was my dad right there.'
— Philip Rivers
I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.
People really liked my dad.
— Randall Park
I think my dad has helped me tremendously.
Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
My dad always made sense. My dad was only wrong when I didn't understand him. Had I listened to him, my life would have been so much easier.
The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.
My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
— Raf Simons
When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
— Rachel Tucker
My dad lost his hearing in the last 18 months of his life, and as a result, I witnessed first-hand the effect that this can have on a family.
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was four. And she was re-diagnosed when I was seven or eight, and again when I was 13, and my dad was very unhealthy, too. I was living on the edge of mortality my entire childhood.
Any man can be a father; not any man can be a dad.
— Rachel Dolezal
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
— Rachael Leigh Cook
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
— Publilius Syrus
Cricket came about for me when my dad started throwing plastic balls to me at home. I was four or five.
My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.
— Post Malone
My British mum met my American dad when she was on holiday in the United States when she was 19. She kinda never looked back. I was born in the United States, raised in Montana and London.
— Philip Winchester
