My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock.
— Julian Barratt
Sometimes, being a single mother, I miss the freedom. I see my other friends with kids, and when they go out for a drink, it is the dad that stays in.
— Julia Restoin Roitfeld
I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.
— Joy Harjo
My mom works at an accounting firm; my dad's a math teacher.
— Joshua Henry
As a kid, I always loved Mel Brooks' stuff - 'The 2,000 Year Old Man' record was something my dad put me onto.
— Josh Gondelman
My dad has sayings for days. 'You bloom where you're planted' ties into farming, but it also sums up the ideals and morals that we have as a family by staying in Firebaugh.
— Josh Allen
Right next to my bedroom, Dad made a chin-up bar with a rowing machine and a treadmill. From there, as years went by, we were able to get a bit of funding, and Dad got all these people involved and built a gym at home.
— Joseph Parker
My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.
— Joseph Mitchell
My dad was always a motivation, even when he wasn't there.
— Jorge Masvidal
My mam and dad have brought me up well.
— Jordan Pickford
Life without cricket was initially harder for my dad than playing the game for Yorkshire and England had ever been. He missed it, and also the adrenaline pump of a performance.
— Jonny Bairstow
My mum thinks I get my determination and resilience from my dad. I think it comes mostly from her.
The place closest to my dad's heart, unequivocally his favourite, was Scarborough. To him it was the epitome of the English coast, postcard perfect.
The 20th anniversary of my dad David's death coincided with my 50th Test cap and for it to be my mum Janet's birthday, too, made it an emotional few days. It was not an easy week, being the Pink Test and my mum having had breast cancer twice.
But having gone through two bouts of breast cancer and all the operations and treatments it's fair to say mum's a special human being - especially as she had to deal with the tragedy and heartache that went with Dad's death.
I was a chubby kid who got made fun of a lot, and I got fit in high school, and I stayed fit in my 20s, until my dad died.
— Jonathan Van Ness
My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.
— Jonathan Krohn
Performing has always been something I wanted to do. My dad had a video camera and I loved being in front of it.
— Julia Voth
My dad was a civil servant, and my mum was a secretary.
— Julia Davis
I was raised in Maryland. My mom was born in London, and my dad was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
— Jovan Adepo
Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'
— Josh McDowell
I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.
— Josh Duhamel
My dad loves boxing, so he used to hold up his hands when we were little kids, and we would punch his hands, and he slowly got us little gloves, and little punching bags that he'd always hold for us.
As a father, you want to protect, but I also want to prepare her for when she grows up, so I want to be a great example as a dad.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
— Joseph Joubert
I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time, I was losing terribly, so I batted my eyelashes and flirted as I asked for a draw. My dad just couldn't believe it. He thought, 'What have I created, a floozy?' But it worked!
— Jordana Spiro
I know if I have played well or badly. I always ask my dad, and he tells me straight.
My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.
My dad passed on his cricketing talent. My mum has enabled me to use it.
I've always tried to honour my dad and what he did for Yorkshire, which for him frequently meant putting the county's cause before his own. But my late boyhood, my early teens and my adolescence were full of net sessions and practice drills he never witnessed, ups and downs he never knew about and matches he never saw.
I've learnt a lot about Dad from going around the world and listening to other people. Whether I've been in Australia, the Caribbean, Leeds, Scarborough or London there's always someone who's got a story about him.
When Dad passed away, grandpa took on that mantle of teaching me how to tackle at football or taking me and mum to cricket.
Of all the success and everything we've achieved, I think I'll be a great dad.
— Jonathan Scott
I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.
— Jonathan Groff
Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
— Julia Roberts
My dad used to play old dancehall records - Cutty Ranks, Ranking Dread, Michael Prophet, these type of dudes.
— JPEGMAFIA
My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC. I kind of agreed with her. We watched American news, though.
— Joss Whedon
I'm a really good dad.
— Josh Holloway
I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.
— Josh Brolin
Things happen. You just have to accept it and move on. I get that from my dad. He's a real chilled character.
My sister plays piano, and my brother used to be on the drums. My dad sings; he's got a good voice.
Sound has always followed me. A lot of reggae when mum was cooking. I'd write songs with my dad or play him anything I'd worked on.
— Jorja Smith
To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.
— Jordan Spieth
It's harder to be a dad than an Olympic champion.
— Jordan Burroughs
With my dad gone, I made a resolution to myself. I would become the man of the house. Adulthood was still more than a decade away for me.
I was only ever briefly angry with my dad for leaving us. It happened shortly after his death, when things were at their darkest and the grief in me was raw and at its worst.
When my dad died, I was eight. Becky was seven. My mum had cancer, the first of two bouts that she's fought and beaten.
I'm a bit taller too because I've got Mum's legs and Dad was a bit more squat and well-built than me. My brother Andrew is a bit more like Dad.
As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.
— Joni Ernst
I want to be a dad, so it's important for me to have a partner who would play a key role in that.
