My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master.
— William Baldwin
My dad was a coach and a schoolteacher.
— Will Muschamp
My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.
— Will Ferrell
I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.
— Will Arnett
In 1974, when the city of Boston was desegregating its schools, I watched the news with my dad and saw the police escorts in riot gear, the protesters screaming at the buses, small frightened faces in their windows.
— Wendell Pierce
When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.
— Warwick Davis
I was born in the Bay Area because my dad was a semi-professional photographer and poet who was really into John Coltrane. He's had many lives. My dad's a capitalist to his bone, but he's also a human to his bone.
— W. Kamau Bell
None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
— W. Bruce Cameron
My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.
— Virgil Abloh
Both my parents were born in the Philippines. My dad is full Filipino, but my mom looks a little mixed, and her mom's name is Estelita Coquico.
— Vincent Rodriguez III
I worked as an accountant in an auditor's office, at a textile showroom, a telephone booth, and a fast-food joint while studying. My dad found it odd, but he never interfered in any of my decisions.
— Vijay Sethupathi
My dad met my mom just once before their marriage.
— Vicky Kaushal
I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
— Vicki Lawrence
I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.
— Verite
It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
— Venus Williams
I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
— Vanessa Kerry
My dad was a big Woody Hayes guy.
— Urban Meyer
Both of my parents are actors and directors and whatnot. My dad loves really solid, old school, Broadway musicals, and one of them is 'Assassins' by Stephen Sondheim. All of the successful or non-successful assassins that have ever existed in the United States come together, and they talk about their killing or attempts through songs.
— Will Rothhaar
I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
— will.i.am
I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.
— Will Estes
I've always had gender confusion. I had two older brothers, and I've been predominantly male influenced. I really always looked up to my dad, really always looked up to my brothers... I had a lot of male friends growing up. It didn't help that in my town, where I lived, there were no female musicians.
— Weyes Blood
In our house, my dad had a chair. It was a Barcalounger, big and comfortable. If we missed him or wanted comfort when he wasn't home, we'd just climb into the chair and let it envelop us.
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
— Walter Dean Myers
My daughter doesn't love me because I'm on TV, she loves me because I'm her dad.
— W. Earl Brown
I don't know where I got the height from; dad was only five-foot-seven and my brother's five-foot eight.
— Vogue Williams
My dad was a country musician, so we had David Allan Coe and lots of other country music playing around the house all the time.
— Vinnie Paul
My dad wanted me to be a businessman, but I felt that wasn't for me.
I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?
— Victoria Gotti
My dad has always inspired me.
I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.
— Vernon Wells
My dad loves to eat, and he loves everything I make!
I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
— Vanilla Ice
It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
I was always quite good at fixing and working with cars. My dad's always dealt cars, and I've always been brought up around them. They're one of the things I've always been interested in.
— Tyson Fury
My dad's a professor of medicine; my mum was a nurse. My little sister is going into healthcare. My older sister is a nurse; my brother's in finance - I'm the runt of the litter.
— Will Poulter
My dad did a great job passing on what he learned from his career.
— Will Grier
That's a tough question; I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.
But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!
— Wes Bentley
There's not a mom or dad that wants to leave their child unprotected.
— Wayne LaPierre
Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
— Wally Schirra
My dad traveled a lot, so I only usually saw him on weekends, growing up. His favorite actors in the world were Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds. If Clint or Burt had a movie out, we would go to the movies. He didn't like movies, generally, unless Clint or Burt were in them.
I concentrate on acting while my dad handles the business side of my career.
— Vivek Oberoi
My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism.
— Vinessa Shaw
I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
— Vince Gill
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
— Victor Borge
The only benefit of my dad being in the film industry was that I got a reality check right from the start. I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be an actor just for the glamour.
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
I'm always on the court with my dad.
My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons of theater.
— Vanessa Kirby
My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
— Vanessa Bayer
