It is a gift to be a teenager, and I see a dad's job as lifeguard, not chaperone.
— Jonathan Franklin
'Dirt On My Boots' is a very different song. I heard the melody, and I heard the lyrics, and I heard the drive of that song. I totally related. It was kinda me when I was on my bulldozer working for my dad.
— Jon Pardi
I have seven uncles, and my dad played bass, they had a band together, that was the family band. And of course as the cousins got older, including myself, we joined a family band. All the cousins played. That's my heritage.
— Jon Batiste
I was always groomed by my dad to win the U.S. Open.
— Johnny Miller
I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.
— Johnny Iuzzini
Weirdly, my dad didn't want me to become an actor, he was always quite resistant to it. He told me as much many times. That just made it more attractive to me.
— Johnny Flynn
My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma.
— Johnny Bench
I had a real bad attitude after my dad passed of liver cancer. I was 9, and we were really close.
— John Wall
I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.
— John Searles
I'm a good dad and a fair husband and I work quite a bit. That takes up a fair amount of time.
— John Schneider
Dad didn't wear the guns unless a report card came in that he didn't particularly dig.
— John Ritter
All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.
— John Mulaney
I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change.
— John Lloyd
Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.
— John Leguizamo
My dad was a banker, and I've always had an interest in it.
— John Layfield
I've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that he instilled in me.
— John Krasinski
My dad builds houses, and, for the earlier portion of my life anyway, we moved around quite a bit. It took us to some just really amazing places.
— John Gourley
Instead of the Beatles and the Stones, my mum and dad were listening to Michael Jackson, Barry White.
— Jonas Blue
My dad has ingrained that in me: 'Be accountable.'
— Jon Lester
My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in.
— Johnny Van Zant
Nat was my hero right from the very beginning. My dad brought his music into the house and played it over and over again.
— Johnny Mathis
My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.
— Johnny Gimble
We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.
I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
— John Wooden
I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.
— John W. Thompson
I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.
I buried my dad on a Thursday and showed up for work on Friday.
— John Schnatter
I grew up in a family of piano players. Both my sisters were serious players, and they both, as they became more accomplished, aspired to buy a Steinway and asked my dad to buy a Steinway.
— John Paulson
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
— John Malkovich
I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun.
— John Lithgow
My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.
— John Legend
Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.
— John Lanchester
I'm Dad at home, not John Kani.
— John Kani
My dad just left high school in '69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took off for Alaska. He bought a van and went straight into the mountains and built a cabin.
I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.
— Jonah Hill
I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.
— Jon Hamm
My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck.
I'm the fun dad, I am also the disciplinarian.
— Johnny Knoxville
When I was younger, I actually stepped foot in a ring for the first time at 8 years old because of my dad.
— Johnny Gargano
My dad was working class.
My dad saw 'A Dirty Shame.' I felt bad about my father knowing what 'felching' was.
— John Waters
My dad was a cross-country truck driver.
I'm a good dad and a fair husband, and I work quite a bit.
It was Labor Day weekend in 1983, and Dad hired me to run Mick's Lounge, a bar he co-owned, for $200 a week. The business was nearly bankrupt. But I said, 'Dad, I can fix it.' It was the most natural thing I'd ever done. It just made sense to me.
My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it's kind of hilarious.
I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working.
— John Mackey
I'm a very tough dad. I mean, I'm a fun dad, but I'm a tough dad.
I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.
— John Leeson
My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
— John L. Phillips
I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8.
— John Joseph Adams
