My first full-time radio job at 21, I was there for only a couple of months before I was hospitalized. I wrote a resignation letter. My dad wouldn't give the letter to my boss at the time.
— Mauro Ranallo
My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
— Matthew Stafford
Joe Mantegna is like my Los Angeles dad.
— Matthew Gray Gubler
I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn't. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud.
— Matt Smith
My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.
— Matt Lauer
I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.
— Matt Dillon
I showed my dad the first episode of 'Toast of London' the other night. He laughed a bit, but when it finished, he just turned to me and said, 'You're an idiot.' I loved that.
— Matt Berry
My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.
— Mary Steenburgen
I don't know who my dad is.
— Mary Gauthier
When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.
— Marty Stuart
My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.
— Martin Henderson
My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.
— Marti Noxon
Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.
— Marla Maples
My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.
— Mark Teixeira
I used to do a lot of fishing with my dad, usually in Beckton Boating Lake.
— Mark Noble
When I was 4, my dad let me 'help' him back out of the driveway, but I'm amazing at driving golf carts.
— Mark Indelicato
I want to be known as a great dad more than anything.
— Mark Henry
I think I'll just become a full-time dad, at home, with my family.
— Mauro Icardi
My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.
— Matthew Morrison
My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.
— Matthew Goode
There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.
I love getting up to my folks' house and playing golf with Dad. He's very involved with my off-course ventures, and I talk to him every third day.
— Matt Kuchar
My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.
— Matt Damon
I was a stage dad. When I was with Earth, Wind and Fire, I was their stage dad - the O'Jays, I was the stage dad.
— Mathew Knowles
A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.
— Mary Pope Osborne
I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.
— Mary Cheney
My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer.
— Martine Syms
I wasn't like a Fifties dad.
— Martin Freeman
I'm trying to be the best dad ever. And being a husband is a whole other business itself.
— Martellus Bennett
I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.
— Mark Wahlberg
I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.
— Mark Ronson
I was a single dad in New York City, raising a child and pursuing a career.
— Mark Linn-Baker
Most of the neighbours didn't like our parents, and they particularly gave Dad a very wide berth. We kids didn't have that luxury.
— Mark Hunt
I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.
— Mark Harmon
I'm sure my desire to perform came, in part, from being around politics as a kid. My dad had a big personality, and a lot of the people involved in Boston politics have big personalities, so there were all kinds of wacky people around.
— Maura Tierney
My dad sent me a clipping about the self-defence militias in Mexico. Immediately, when I read it, I knew I wanted to create a parallel story about vigilantes on both sides of the border.
— Matthew Heineman
My dad was a preacher.
— Matthew Desmond
I learned more from my dad by osmosis than by any talk we ever had. He was the most reliable person I've ever met.
I'm happiest playing a match with my dad and a couple of college friends, taking a few bucks off them.
The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.
— Matt Czuchry
My dad was a scratch golfer growing up. When I'm on the road, I always bring my clubs with me.
— Mat Kearney
Actually, a lot of my influences were horn players. I really liked Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Miles Davis - people like that. My dad had a lot of those records. So when I started playing jazz primarily, it wasn't jazz guitar that I was listening to.
— Mary Halvorson
Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a year - more than Dad paid his own staff - for inventing cheese recipes and writing leaflets at the Dutch Dairy Bureau in London.
— Mary Berry
My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.
— Martina McBride
When I was young, I didn't like going to school, but I loved my dad. He was my professor.
— Martin Bouygues
My dad was an ex-player, so he knew what he was saying. When we talk about football, he knows what he's talking about. We can talk all evening.
— Marouane Fellaini
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.
When I speak to my dad and my wife, and friends, they say it's 10 years at West Ham, you're leading the team out every week, when you sit back and really think about it, it's very rare.
I'm a remedial reading student from Ohio who grew up to write pieces on my mom and dad in the 'New York Times.' They were really touched by that - something they never saw coming.
— Mark Kozelek
Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.
— Mark Hoppus
