For my dad to say he's proud of me - in English - is a really big deal.
— Mirai Nagasu
I ride my motorcycle with my dad, I hang out with my sisters.
— Millicent Simmonds
I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!
— Miley Cyrus
My dad heard of a studio on the radio, and it was advertised as a place for kids to meet kids, and it was actually a studio, and that's where I met my manager and agent.
— Mila Kunis
As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.
— Mike Trout
After I wrote 'The Best Of Times' for my dad and after I completed the '12 Steps Suite' with Dream Theater, I very much felt like I had said everything I wanted to say lyrically.
— Mike Portnoy
My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.
— Mike Myers
My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.
— Mike Krieger
Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.'
— Mike Birbiglia
I would always compare myself with the best, and my dad is the best, and he's my idol, too.
— Mick Schumacher
I was three years old. I had a go-kart that my dad had on a leash so I would not go too quick.
I would love to be a dad. There are plenty of comedians who have kids. But they're dads. Being a dad is so different from being a mom.
— Michelle Wolf
When I went off to college my dad would call and be like, 'hey did you watch RAW?'
— Michelle McCool
My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.
— Michaela Watkins
My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.
— Michael Shannon
Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
— Michael Reagan
My father taught me how to substitute realities.
— Mira Sorvino
My dad, like, he's the most trusting human in the world.
I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17.
I fight for my name. For my dad's last name to be recognized in the history books of boxing.
— Mikey Garcia
If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.
— Mike Singletary
Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.
My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.
— Mike McGavick
I was a Dow Chemical baby. My dad designed chemical plants for Dow Chemical.
— Mike Dean
As early as I can remember, I would put on plays with my cousin and make my dad record them. In kindergarten, I started doing the school plays, and it just continued.
— Mikaela Hoover
My dad had a huge influence. He's my idol, and I'm following everything he did, looking for something I can use myself.
What my dad did was extraordinary. I appreciate it more every day.
I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, 'Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?' And it's like, yeah, honey, they do.
— Michelle Obama
Maybe I didn't get new skates, but I got used skates. I made it to the national championships in used skates that were custom-made for another girl. I still have those skates. Underneath the arch, there was a name crossed out and my dad had 'Michelle Kwan' written in. Granted, they were a little big, but it worked.
— Michelle Kwan
My mom is an avid musical theatergoer. My dad would always get a subscription to the Syracuse Stage. I was always exposed to theater. So I went to a theater conservatory at Boston University.
I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind.
— Michael Rosenbaum
Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.
My dad is a good dad.
— Mindy McCready
My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.
I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.
My dad had his dream of being a champion boxing trainer. He accomplished that.
My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.
— Mike Shinoda
Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.
My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.
My dad always watched wrestling and I seldom did.
— Mike Leach
My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
My dad won an Oscar in 1951 with an un-Anglicized name, the first Hispanic to ever win an Oscar, and the Academy is so intractable to this day.
— Miguel Ferrer
My dad had a huge influence on my career.
There's no one person I can talk to and try and be as him - but the one person I want to is my dad.
I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.
— Michelle Monaghan
I was not aware of what my dad had accomplished. I grew up with him playing football.
— Michelle Carter
My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.
— Michael Sheen
Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.
