I'm half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it.
— Harshvardhan Rane
My mum and dad never went abroad for a holiday. My dad was overseas in the war but never thought about going anywhere like the Mediterranean after that, so my mum died without ever having been on a plane or abroad.
— Harry Redknapp
My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
— Harrison Ford
My dad brought 'Clerks' to Sundance 22 years ago, and that's when his career started.
— Harley Quinn Smith
He doesn't know how to be warmer. I can't blame him. My dad had to deal with more stuff than I ever did.
— Hank Williams III
My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
— Haley Joel Osment
My dad would take me deer hunting with him, which was pretty traumatic - 'Bambi' was one of my favorite movies.
— Haley Bennett
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
— Hale Irwin
I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens' past, it means a lot because it was a team I cherished as a kid. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.
— Guy Lafleur
I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.
— Guy Fieri
I grew up going to football games with my dad and we were just sports fanatics.
— Gretchen Whitmer
My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls.
— Greg Kinnear
I grew up in Shropshire, but I was born in Wales. There was a hospital seven miles away, but my dad drove 45 miles over the Welsh border so I could play rugby for Wales. But as a skinny asthmatic, I was only ever good at swimming.
— Greg Davies
One of the most revealing details about my parents is that they only got together three months before my dad's arrest.
— Granit Xhaka
If I think of all the family members, I was probably the only one who was excited with the possibility of my dad's entering public office.
— Grace Poe
My dad was an insane workaholic, and watching his work ethic gave me a lot of motivation.
— Grace Helbig
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
— Harry S Truman
Mum tries to keep our mind on other things as well as football. But my dad's always football.
— Harry Maguire
My Dad is my hero.
My dad was ex-military, so I was raised to always know about current events, particularly what was going on with the military and government. And I always loved storytelling.
— Harris Faulkner
My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.
— Hannibal Buress
My dad is afraid of my laugh.
— Halston Sage
With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.
My dad was a single father, and he was a hunter.
My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.
To any child, the first occupations that are presented to you are your parents'. I was appealed to my dad's occupation from the get-go.
— Gustaf Skarsgard
After I won Miss America, I called my dad, who had four kids in college, to say he no longer had to pay for Stanford.
— Gretchen Carlson
My dad, who had spent his life as a lecturer, said, 'That's all very well, but you need to earn a living, so why don't you teach?' I did, and 13 years later, I woke up.
When I was 17, my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van, and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my sister and I were being horrible, sulky teenagers.
My dad played football, too, in the former Yugoslavia.
I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.
It was my dad who encouraged me to come into films.
— Govinda
I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.
— Harry Reid
Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
My dad was a fighter pilot with the 210th Combat Aviation in Vietnam.
If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
— Hanna Rosin
My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
— Haley Reinhart
With my dad coming from a theatre tradition, there was a lot of preparation before auditions. Not just in terms of saying the lines correctly but a process of entering into what it was all about.
I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.
There are four of us, and we were all born in different cities because my dad worked all around the place. We settled in Birmingham, so I spent most of my time growing up there. We were all given very Welsh names - Geraint, Owen, Rhiannon and Gwilym. My mum's called Cainwen, and my dad is somewhat disappointingly called Tom.
— Gwilym Lee
When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.
I even remember the first contract I ever signed. I was 13 or 14... my dad said, 'It's your choice. It's your life.'
— Grigor Dimitrov
My dad is a builder, and my mum's a nurse. They're just very normal people.
— Greg Rutherford
Anything my dad says about what I say about him, I can remind him of ten examples where he publicly humiliated me. We're really close. The culture of mickey-taking is well established in my family.
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
— Grant Bowler
I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12, and I had dog, monkey, lizard, everything. Then I was in Hawaii, and I'm spear-fishing, catching octopus with my hands.
— Graham Elliot
My mum was very glamorous, an incredible seamstress. She made up those Vogue, Givenchy and Yves St. Laurent patterns they used to sell. It was church couture, darling! Because my dad was a pastor, she could get away with more than other women. Her skirts were that bit tighter.
— Grace Jones
