My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.
— Mark Gatiss
My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.
— Marion Cotillard
My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
— Marilyn Manson
My parents, they were both Socialists; they were young - 30, 31. They were both successful career people. They had been teachers, and my dad spoke English.
— Maria Cornejo
My dad joined Langley in 1964 as a co-op student and retired in 2004 an internationally respected climate scientist.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.
— Margaret Turnbull
Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.
— Marcia Gay Harden
Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.
— Marc Jacobs
I remember that my dad worked on cars from the '70s and '80s, and that's where my love came from: appreciating - even if it was a piece of crap - how much he loved American muscle.
— Mannie Fresh
I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.
— Mamie Gummer
I'm a dad; I started a program for young men when my first child was born.
— Malik Yoba
I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
— Malik Jackson
When my dad passed, I felt like I had to grow up very quickly.
— Malachi Kirby
I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.
— Maika Monroe
I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.
As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.
— Mahershala Ali
My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.
— Magdi Yacoub
I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
— Marissa Mayer
I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.
— Mario Balotelli
I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.
— Marianne Faithfull
My dad has some depressive issues, and he's really tough on himself. So sometimes he can say things that are not super supportive. Like once I did a set, and he says, 'Sheesh, no wonder you're still single.' I was like, 'Eight ball, corner pocket, dad.'
— Maria Bamford
My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
— Margaret Mead
I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.
— Marcia Cross
My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.
— Marc Davis
My dad is my biggest fan.
Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name are Ma, my dad's is Lu, and my sister's is Ma.
— Maluma
We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'
My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
My dad passed when I was 6. I found out when I was about 21 that my dad always said acting would be the making of me. Where he got that from, I have no idea.
My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.
I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.
— Mahesh Babu
My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
— Magic Johnson
My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
— Madi Diaz
I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.
— Marisa Miller
My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.
Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.
— Maria Sharapova
My dad worked with Mary Jackson very closely at one point. I knew Katherine Johnson as well. They were all part of this group of black engineers and scientists within this larger NASA community.
I'm a very promiscuous reader. My dad's a big science fiction fan, so I'd read 'Dune,' and 'Watership Down' and 'The Lord Of The Rings.'
— Margo Lanagan
We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.
— Marcy Kaptur
My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician through and through.
— Marc Martel
My dad is literally - and I love him so much - he is my number one fan.
— Manny Jacinto
With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.
— Manisha Koirala
My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!
— Mallory Jansen
My dad was around every second. Teaching me the game.
I've always been a poet. My dad went to Lincoln University with Gil-Scott Heron, so I came out of the womb listening to Gil-Scott Heron.
— Malcolm-Jamal Warner
I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
— Maksim Chmerkovskiy
I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
My parents were in high school when I was born. My mom was 16, my dad was 17. They were kids, at the very beginning of coming into their own and finding themselves.
My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
