I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.
— Jeb Bush
Mother and Dad were destined to have a gaggle of children. We would not have been complete if they had stopped at two or four or even six. Nine of us we had to be.
— Jean Kennedy Smith
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
— Jean de La Fontaine
My mom was a singer, and my dad had been playing in bands with my mom's brother. My dad married my mom, and so I was sorta surrounded by music from the get-go. Born right into it.
— Jay DeMarcus
Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.
— Jason Ritter
My dad, as much as I love him, has one of those signs - 'The Isbell's' - on his front door, and he's got the damn apostrophe in there. I haven't strangled him yet.
— Jason Isbell
My dad was very rough with us.
— Jason Day
My dad was my first influence. He played classical guitar and my uncle Ron played the blues.
— Jason Becker
I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.
— Jason Bateman
Dad was never a Mr. Mum-type of person who'd stay at home. It was a big thing when he was home - he was a circus.
— Jared Harris
I'm the only one of the family born in Yorkshire. My aunt came down first with her husband and told my mum there was plenty of work in Wakefield. My dad was going to go to Australia, but mum said no, we'll go to Wakefield.
— Jane McDonald
My dad was down the pit and my mother worked in a newsagent.
My kids have a great dad. I don't really want them to have a stepfather, and I don't think they do, either.
— Jane Kaczmarek
My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.
— Jamie Redknapp
My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.
— Jamie Dornan
My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.
— James Wolk
Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house.
— James Wan
I think my dad's post-presidency, he didn't miss a beat. He didn't get into any kind of 'Woe is me.' He dusted himself off and led an incredible life since 1993.
Dad encouraged us to get jobs. He'd help us get a job if we knew what we wanted.
With my own videos, I definitely have more control over what I want to put out there and what I want to say. With the TV show, I'm not the editor. There's always things that I wanted to put in there. My dad has the final say in everything on YouTube, but I can be more expressive.
— Jazz Jennings
When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.
— Jason Statham
I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.
— Jason Mraz
My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.
— Jason Gann
My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.
My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.
I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.
— Jasmine Guinness
My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.
— January Jones
My dad Peter, who was my roadie when I was starting out, had loads of confidence but couldn't sing.
From the start. As early as - I felt I was in the wrong sex; I really did. I would go into my dad's room and put on his clothes.
— Jane Lynch
My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.
— Jane Horrocks
I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.
My grandfather, Harry, died when my dad was in his early 20s, so I never met him. Amazingly, he was 6ft tall. That gene definitely never filtered down to me!
— Jamie Cullum
For Mum and Dad... work and home is family, so work is family and home is family. We grew up with that.
— James William Middleton
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.
To all of us, Dad was Number One in our house.
My dad was in the service, so I went to 12 schools in 13 years.
— Jay Ellis
A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.
My dad, he worries a bit, usually with good reason. There were quite a few years there where he was probably trying to resign himself to fact that I wouldn't live too much longer, just because of the way I was living.
When I lost my dad, there was no one there to be the disciplinarian, and we kind of ran amok.
If my dad was alive, I wouldn't have gone to boarding school, and I wouldn't have had the success I've had.
My father was a writer/director/producer, so instead of throwing a ball around, our bonding was going to see movies. And at an early age, I knew if I wanted to impress my dad, it was not going to be by throwing a ball real far.
My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
— Jaron Lanier
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
— Janis Joplin
But it's funny, I really was quite introverted as a child. I just liked music, so mum and dad bought me a piano when I was seven - I actually got up to Grade Seven at the London College of Music on piano.
One of the only TV shows that I really love is 'Twin Peaks.' Kyle McLachlan plays Agent Dale Cooper, and I love Dale Cooper, so I'm in love with Kyle McLachlan. He could be my dad, so it's really weird.
— Jane Levy
Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.
I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.
My mom and dad decided to homeschool us - I'm one of eight - because they really wanted us to be outside and learn some other fundamentals instead of it being school all day in a classroom.
— Jamie Anderson
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
