All the valuable lessons I learned from my dad, little questions to big, and that's what I want my children to do.
— Philip Rivers
Dad didn't earn a big wage but even if he was really ill he'd go to work.
— Phil Taylor
I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.
— Phil Daniels
When I was 13, I told my dad I wanted to move to Florida to attend the IMG Academy. I wanted to be a golfer, and that's hard to do in New England where I could only practice half the year.
— Peter Uihlein
My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.
— Peter O'Toole
What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.
— Peter Jackson
I did a paper round as a kid, but the early mornings were too much. My dad took it over, so I was getting paid 15 quid a week, but he was doing it!
— Peter Crouch
I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
— Peter Criss
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
— Peter Agre
When my dad died, I had to go to therapy.
— Pete Davidson
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
— Pauly Shore
The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.
— Paul Walker
My dad worked on the Middlesbrough docks.
— Paul Rodgers
My dad was a very strong man, very stubborn as well.
— Paul Pogba
I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.
— Paul McCartney
My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.
— Paul Lynde
I spent many, many hours in the stack at the University of Washington library just wandering around, when my dad was working, as a kid.
— Paul Allen
I'm good friends with Robbie Williams because we both grew up in Stoke and our dads went to the same pubs. His dad, Pete, is like my second dad, I can talk to him about anything and I see him most weeks. And Rob is brilliant, a really generous, lovely bloke.
My mum and dad worked in the pottery industry.
My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.
— Petra Stunt
Dad was convinced always that I was going to be a road sweeper.
— Peter Sellers
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
— Peter Orszag
My dad's wife, my stepmom, is a serious painter. My dad also paints. My mother is a brilliant sculptor, and her husband is a sculptor.
— Peter Heller
When I was a kid, the FA Cup was the one: it was bigger than the European Cup, even. So to win that, for me, and my dad as well - we used to watch it together - was brilliant.
My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I still do, gathering impressions.
— Peter Coyote
I'm built like my dad. Stocky, strong.
— Pete Rose
This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.
— Penn Jillette
I was always a total ham, but my dad really taught me that.
— Paula Pell
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
— Paul Theroux
In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.
— Paul Reiser
I didn't have a dad around to pick me up when I fell, throw the ball to me outside. I always wonder how it would be if I did have a dad there.
— Paul Pierce
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.
— Paul Giamatti
My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.
— Patti Smith
We had this little yard, and during the summer holidays, when my mum and dad were working, I spent hours bowling a golf ball at a stick. Just bowling, bowling, bowling. And I got to where I could hit the stick every time, repeating the same action. That's where the darts came from.
My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
— Phil McGraw
My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.
I understood rage from my dad, who was an exquisite blend of rage and generosity of spirit.
— Peter Scolari
I remember my first memory is sitting in my dad's chair in a small office and I used to imagine that I was picking up the phone and issuing commands. And I was only seven.
— Peter Jones
I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.
— Peter Gallagher
Des Bulpin discovered me and, along with my dad, would be the biggest influence on my career. I remember him telling me when I was 15 that Jermain Defoe and I would play together for England when we were older, and he hasn't been too far wrong.
The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.
— Peter Bergen
Me and my dad, we're both quite nostalgic people.
— Pete Doherty
My dad is so impressed. He loves the movies and would take us two, three times a week, so this fantasy of mine of becoming an actor? I can blame my father for that. He's so amazed. And so happy.
— Pedro Pascal
I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.
I know a lot about the Titanic. My dad was a Titanic expert.
— Paul Rudd
In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.
I want to be the dad that my father never was.
My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.
Initially, kids are attracted to Superman as a hero because he can take care of problems and still appear as friendly as your dad.
— Paul Dini
