My mum is a singer and harpist, and my dad writes fantastic poetry, so we've grown up around a lot of words and music.
— Jessie Buckley
I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.
— Jessica Pare
I love playing guitar. I grew up with my dad playing. But acting is definitely the forefront, I guess I'd say, in terms of career and something that I really enjoy and feel lucky to be able to do.
— Jesse Plemons
My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.
— Jerry Heller
I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.
— Jeremy Sisto
My dad epitomises everything I'd like my kids to say about me. He gave his kids the best start and he had values.
— Jeremy Kyle
I need to write a sitcom, but something with warmth, not one where the dad comes home and he's treated like an idiot.
— Jens Lekman
After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.
— Jenny Eclair
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
— Jennifer Lawrence
Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.
— Jennifer Grant
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
— Jennifer Aniston
My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
— Jenna Blum
My dad always wanted to sail. They lived on a boat for eight years.
— Jeffrey Skoll
Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.
— Jeffrey Kluger
I don't ever remember wanting to do anything but coach. My dad obviously influenced me. But it wasn't because he sat there and drilled coaching stuff into our heads. We were on the bench keeping the scorebook and traveling with the team on weekends. It was such a great upbringing.
— Jeff Van Gundy
My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
— Jeff Foxworthy
I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.
— Jeff Bridges
I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.
— Jessica Simpson
My dad was a baseball coach, and then I switched to softball. Baseball was all I knew until I crossed over. It never seemed like a big deal.
— Jessica Mendoza
I love being a dad. I just love it.
— Jerry Seinfeld
Dad truly believed that Christians should be involved in the political process and should make their voices heard.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.
— Jeremy Northam
I suppose there wasn't a well-worn path into the British space programme because we didn't really have a space programme. Dad was one of the pioneers of it.
— Jeremy Hardy
It was hard to write about my dad for the first book because I know how sensitive he is. I knew he wasn't going to take it as well as my mom, who can kind of roll with the punches and is used to having me tell her everything she has done wrong as a parent.
— Jenny Mollen
I was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, lived there a couple of times. My dad was in the Navy. So, we lived in Mississippi and South Carolina until I was 11, and then I moved to California, went to, you know, high school there in the Monterey Bay area.
— Jennifer Palmieri
I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to.
— Jennifer Grey
Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.
My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.
— Jennie Garth
My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!
I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that.
— Jeffrey R. Immelt
I've got a love affair with Harley-Davidson. One of my earliest photos with my dad is of him holding me as a baby on his bike.
— Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I got the dragon on my leg when I was still living with my dad. He's not a fan of tattoos, so I had to get it behind his back; he kind of freaked out when he saw it.
— Jeff Hardy
I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
I just want to be a good dad.
— Jeff Bauman
I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.
My dad, who I'm very close to, is one of those men where once you're in, once he loves you, that's it, no questions about it.
I learned from my dad that when you walk in front of an audience, they are the kings and queens, and you're but the jester.
— Jerry Lewis
I do feel my African side, but I've always wanted to play for Germany. Ghana did contact me, but I told them and my dad that I was sure I wanted to play for Germany.
— Jerome Boateng
I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.
— Jeremy London
Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.
— Jeremy Corbyn
I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.
My dad was a Republican. My mom - my mom was mostly a Republican, although she voted for McGovern over Nixon. She was really proud of that. She also did, however, work for Trent Lott.
I remember going on carriage rides with Dad when we'd visit. I think quiet L.A. suited him better, but he loved to see shows here, he loved to visit his friends in the Hamptons.
I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
— Jennifer Ellison
My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.
— Jenna Bush
Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.
— Jen Lancaster
The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.
My dad is an entomologist and research chemist. That's why he was in Fiji, studying the rhinoceros beetle invasive species.
— Jeff Vandermeer
My fascination with war is because my dad was in World War II, and my brother was in Vietnam.
— Jeff Hanneman
Having grown up there, my dad in 1967 took me to the Rams-Eagles game, and I've been a Rams fan since I was a kid.
— Jeff Fisher
