My dad just decided that he wanted to race sled dogs, and when he did that, he took us out of Wasilla, and we never really went back.
— John Gourley
My dad had the greatest admiration for MacArthur when they were working together in Washington before the Philippines. And Dad used to talk with absolute awe about MacArthur's brain.
— John Eisenhower
I'll never forget watching my dad perform in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Richard III' in New York.
— John David Washington
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
— John Cusack
I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.
— John Cho
There was so much about my dad that wasn't on the surface.
— John Carter Cash
My dad lived with pain his whole life.
Life was something Dad enjoyed to the fullest. He put some tough years on himself. He probably would have had another 10 years to live if he hadn't been so hard on himself. But there again, he sure did live while he was here.
Dad had a way of defining himself. He couldn't put his finger on whether it was rock 'n' roll or country.
Some folks expect my music to sound like my dad's.
I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.
— John C. McGinley
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
— John Boyega
My dad came from Trinidad to Jamaica when he was 19. He had to go to Jamaica to join the British regiment, where it was based. After Sandhurst, he returned to the Caribbean as a junior lieutenant, based in Jamaica. He met my mum and became a Jamaican citizen.
— John Barnes
I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that's OK, but whatever you do... Don't stop, and don't quit. Even if it's hard, you can't be lazy.
— Joey Kramer
My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson.
— Joely Fisher
I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.
— Joel Kinnaman
In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.
— Joel Courtney
I grew up in Alaska, okay? My dad graduated high school and went straight to the mountains. He had $300 and staked a claim. He didn't even have enough to put a title on the land: just had the records that he bought before he moved.
You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.
I would tell people my dad was all the characters he's played in movies, because once you say he's a lawyer or something, they move on.
My dad was an electrical engineer.
— John Cooper Clarke
My dad is not a sports guy but was drawn to the theatrics of wrestling.
— John Cena
My dad was a unique person.
Right after my mother died, my dad and I went into the studio and he recorded a song called 'I Found You Among the Roses.'
I knew 'Hurt' way before Dad recorded it. In 1992, 'Downward Spiral' was one of my favorite albums.
I was born on March 3, 1970, as Mom and Dad's stardom was nearing its peak, while The Johnny Cash Show, was airing regularly on network TV.
I never felt like I had to sound like my dad. I wanted my music to be creative expression with no expectations.
My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.
— John Bytheway
My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
— John Boehner
When I started training at the age of eight, my dad used to encourage me.
— Johanna Konta
I have been through a lot of ups and downs in life, both personally and professionally, and I discovered over the years that I have a lot of fortitude, and I got that from my dad.
I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
— Joel Osteen
My dad would take me downtown, and I'd stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player.
— Joel Grey
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.
— Joe Wright
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
— John F. Kennedy
My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.
My dad being not the greatest dad in the world has made me a better parent.
— John Daly
My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
— John Collison
My favorite thing about 'Saturday Night's Main Event,' it was that one time where I could stay up late with my dad and four brothers, and we would all beat the tar out of each other while the show was on, and it was all okay because my dad was a wrestling fan.
Nobody sounds like my dad.
My father's favorite poem was probably 'Love is patient, love is kind.' It's simply stated but pretty profound. That's how my dad wrote.
He gave me a picture of himself when I was 14 and it said, 'To John Carter: My Best friend, Dad.' That meant so much to me. We were best friends, but we struggled.
My mother's death was very painful as it occurred over a period of a week. Watching her die was the hardest thing my dad ever went through.
I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.
— John C. Reilly
Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
My dad was a proper old English gentleman, even though he was from the Caribbean. He used to stand up and salute during the Queen's Christmas speech.
I grew up all over the world. My dad was a doctor but not a career-type doctor. He was very curious, so he took the whole family and moved to Miami in the '70s, and we lived there for a couple of years. Then we continued like that and lived in various places around the world.
— Johan Renck
My dad played a little bit of piano and guitar, but not that professionally. I saw him play, and I said, 'I want to play. I want to try this instrument.'
— Joey Alexander
My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
I started liking basketball when I was 13, but I couldn't play because my dad thought it was too physical.
— Joel Embiid
