My dad was a pool-equipment salesman. He died when I was 12. Heart attack on a golf course.
— Laurie David
First and foremost, I loved basketball. My dad introduced me to basketball when I was a baby.
— Lauren Wasser
Honestly, I was such a tomboy as a kid. People were taking from their mothers' closets - I was taking from my dad's closet. It was the '80s, so it wasn't terrible, but I was wearing my dad's dress shirts over jeans from the Gap.
— Lauren Graham
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
— Laura Mvula
I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
— Laura Haddock
I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.
— Larry Hagman
My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.
— Larry Elder
I can't remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can't remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That's when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.
— Lando Norris
I wanted to go to college to be a journalist and follow in my dad's work. And then I became an actor.
— Lana Condor
My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.
— Laila Ali
I grew up all over the South. My dad just kind of followed construction.
— Lacey Evans
If I didn't play well, Dad was the first one to tell me where I'd gone wrong and give great advice.
— Kyle Walker
I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.
— Kyle MacLachlan
My dad certainly has an eye for talent and he did something right getting his sons to the top of NASCAR.
— Kyle Busch
When I left school, I went and bought my own sound system, and me and my dad would just go along to all the pubs and clubs around the local area and just sort of do our own little cover shows.
— Kyla Reid
My dad's really funny. The male sense of humor - like my grandfather's and such - is pretty bizarre. Basically my dad's side of the family is where the bizarreness comes from. It's a little goofy and a little out there.
— Kurt Vile
I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.
— KT Tunstall
Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.
— Laurent Baheux
Both my mom and dad were models.
Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.
My first record I ever got was 'Full Moon Fever.' My dad gave me a copy when I was maybe nine years old or something. And I listened to the heck out of that record. I loved that record.
— Laura Jane Grace
Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
— Laura Bush
My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
— Larry Fitzgerald
My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!
— La'Porsha Renae
My dad kind of liked racing and motorsports, but wasn't a big fan, it wasn't like he watched every race or whatever.
I thank my dad for the JBA Experience and playing overseas.
— LaMelo Ball
My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
I think pressure is good. Just watching my brother and my dad be professional athletes, I think pressure has driven them and has caused them to excel more.
— Kylie Bunbury
My dad's travelled everywhere with me since I was seven, so I owe him so much.
I probably gave up on my dad when I was born.
— Kyle Lowry
I had a great teacher in my brother and my dad, and to be able to follow Kurt's footsteps has helped out a whole bunch.
More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.
— Kurtwood Smith
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
— Kurt Russell
I didn't want to play the wife of some guy my dad's age.
— Krysten Ritter
I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle, and they'll say I'm the worst actor in the world.
— Laurence Fox
For me, I love Marc Anthony a lot. He's one of my dad's favorite artists, and I listened to him a lot growing up.
— Lauren Jauregui
I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
— Laura Wasser
My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.
— Laura Harrier
I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.
— Laura Benanti
My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.
When you're little you either want to be like your dad or be directly opposite.
— Lane Kiffin
I started off with sim driving, playing 'Gran Turismo,' and my Dad had some sort of Logitech steering wheel with pedals for the PlayStation 2.
My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
— Lake Bell
I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
— Lady Gaga
I grew up in an athletic family. My dad played and my brother currently plays professional soccer, so I'm athletic.
I needed to prove to myself - to the manager, to the fans, even to my mum and dad - that I'm not just an average player.
Every year, dads will dress up as Santa and try to surprise their kids by coming down the chimney, and every year, a dad gets stuck and dies.
— Kyle Dunnigan
My dad had a huge movie collection. So we all had a good sense of entertainment history. I was a Jack Lemmon fan more than most people from my generation.
— Kyle Bornheimer
Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.
My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and Saturn and meteor showers.
