My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.
— Katharine Isabelle
My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
— Katee Sackhoff
My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.
— Kate Winslet
I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.
— Kate Thompson
It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
— Karrie Webb
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
— Karin Slaughter
Every show I've been on, my kids pay no attention. They're just like, 'Who cares. It's just dad's job.'
— Karamo Brown
My dad was very much a Pan-Africanist and instilled in me and my siblings a want for that knowledge.
— Kamasi Washington
The reason I made my stage name Kali Uchis is because it's still me in the sense that, my dad called me 'Kali Uchis' my whole life. It's still something I've been called since I was a baby. It's still me.
— Kali Uchis
Parents are the centre of a person's solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most, so his absence was bound to leave a deep and lasting void.
— Justin Trudeau
I worked at a jewelry store to pay the bills when I first moved to N.Y.C., and I always loved the phrase 'Semi Precious.' So I wanted to just call the band Semi Precious, but my dad told it was kinda sissy, so I added Weapons.
— Justin Tranter
You mess up as a dad, and you have your worst moments.
— Justin Hartley
I have a complex heritage: my mom is African American, and my dad is Jewish. Both were activists, and they met during the movement in the '70s.
— Jurnee Smollett-Bell
My dad painted cars for a living, and my mom graduated from college when I was a college freshman myself.
— Julie Sweet
My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.
— Juliana Hatfield
On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.
— Julian Lennon
My dad, he can cook, but he can't cook: it's sort of like 50/50.
— Julian Dennison
Whenever I had to move away from my dad, it was so hard; like, I would cry myself to sleep.
— Katelyn Ohashi
I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
— Kate Walsh
My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
— Kate Fleetwood
Our dad used to take us fishing, and I still love it.
— Karolina Pliskova
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.
Los Angeles has always been overlooked as far as jazz, and just high-level music in general. But, like, my dad's a musician, so I've grown up around so many brilliant musicians that nobody outside Los Angeles knows about.
I think I'm a bit more of a rule-breaker than my mom. She's very sweet and very worried. She was valedictorian. I think I got a little bit of an edgier side from my dad.
— Kaia Gerber
One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.
The reason I started dancing in the first place was my dad took me to see 'Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In 'da Funk' when I was 9.
— Justin Peck
My dad is awesome.
— Justin Halpern
Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.
— Junior Seau
My dad, who likes genealogy, knows who was the first guy that came from France in 1655, and the guy settled in Montreal, and Montreal is an island where the city is in Quebec.
— Julie Payette
I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.
— Juliana Harkavy
I love my dad.
— Julian Edelman
My dad wanted to be a musician, so when I started playing guitar, he was like, 'Go for it.' That is what I did for ages; I was in bands. And then I went to university and got into comedy somehow.
— Julian Barratt
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' - I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.
— Kate Upton
I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
— Kat Dennings
I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.
The audiences know their actors. Didn't Shah Rukh Khan have a romantic image despite playing a dad in 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?'
— Karan Patel
My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full of music books, videos, albums. I guess it's not surprising that I ended up becoming a musician.
Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.
— Kalpana Chawla
My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
— Kacy Catanzaro
Much more a skiing family than a hockey family, my dad wasn't a big fan of the arenas early in the morning on the weekends.
I grew up, from ages 8 to 18, watching reruns of 'Star Trek' with my dad and my mom when they got home from work.
— Justin Lin
I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.
— Justin Bieber
My dad was lackadaisical on the discipline front. I dropped out of everything at school.
— Juliette Lewis
My dad didn't drive - the only dad I knew who didn't.
— Julie Burchill
My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.
When Dad stopped playing in a rock band and was done chasing that dream, he devoted himself to his family. I would love to do the same thing - just without driving a 1991 Suburban and wearing sweatpants, a fanny pack, and six-year-old Pumas.
