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So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

— Lisa Guerrero

My mom, dad, and sister have all watched every episode of everything I've ever done.

— Lindy Booth

My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.

— Linda Sue Park

I couldn't handle the pain and confusion surrounding my dad's divorce, and I was having a hard time balancing being a teenager with pursuing two different grown-up careers.

— Lily Collins

My grandad was a submariner; my mum's dad was in the navy.

My dad used to play that Paul McCartney song 'Let 'Em In.' That was dope.

I always have been very musically influenced because of my dad. He had a very big record collection, so I dabbled in different genres.

I got people to take care of: my mom, my dad, my grandma, my aunties.

I want to be a superhero dad to where my kid feel like everything I do is nothing wrong.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

— Liam Neeson

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.

I started watching Formula 1 with my dad when I was just four or five years old. I loved cars.

— Lewis Hamilton

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

— Leslie Mann

I have inherited pace from my dad, and in terms of the physical side with the balance, I have inherited that from my mum.

My dad died with a full head of hair, so I have that legacy.

The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.

— Lee Westwood

My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.

— Lee Daniels

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

— Lisa Guerrero

My dad loves going backstage. I try not to have him give too many jokes to people.

— Lindsay Shookus

It's weird, the idea of someone else playing my dad, but weirdly nice.

Many of my deepest insecurities stem from my issues with my dad.

— Lily Collins

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

My dad did not play Biggie or Tupac, so I had never heard it.

Wherever you're from, you adapt to your environment. It definitely made my music a little bit more explicit. Because I really was in North Philly, I listened to State Property and stuff. Everything my dad listened to, I listened to.

— Lil Uzi Vert

My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.

My dad worked for child protection.

— Liam Hemsworth

My dad is Arab. I'm not Muslim, but half of family is, so I see a lot of injustice happening in the portrayal of Muslims that they don't have any heroes.

— Lexi Alexander

My mum and dad have made Twitter accounts, and they will send me links if there is a bad review and tell me they'll find out where the reviewer lives.

— Lewis Capaldi

When I was young, my dad always let me listen to comedy albums.

— Leslie Jones

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'

— Lee Westwood

My mum is Palestinian and my dad is British but worked all his life from the European Union for their Foreign Action Service. So I was born in Hammersmith but moved away when I was one. That’s when dad joined the European Commission.

— Layla Moran

When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV.

— Linus Roache

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

— Lindi Ortega

My dad did every single accent under the sun, and he would read bedtime stories.

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

— Lily Collins

We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.

— Lilly Wachowski

When I was little, my dad showed me N.E.R.D., their first album, and I thought it was amazing. I thought Pharrell was just killing everything. That was my first introduction to rap.

My dad was a big influence because he did a lot of music.

I didn't know that Left Eye's dad passed away right when she wanted to tell him that she just signed to LaFace Records. After I signed to Jive Records and just before I put out my first album, my mother passed away. It was very odd how much we had in common.

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

— Lianne La Havas

I didn't always want to be a dad.

— Liam Gallagher

When I was a kid and Christmas was coming up, my dad would ask me what I wanted, and I always said a motorbike. I kept asking for one, and he said it was too dangerous and bought me a go-kart instead.

— Lewis Hamilton

My dad was an early hip-hop fan.

— Leslie Odom, Jr.

My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.

— Leslie Jamison

My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm mixed race - my dad's Caucasian, and my mom's Mexican - so I want to play anything and everything, from American to Latino, the whole spectrum; I'm insatiable.

Bobby Ball, who plays my dad in 'Not Going Out,' is very funny. He has a magical sense for comedy that nobody has been able to replicate.