Without my dad doing what he did, and without me putting in the hours, there wouldn't be any travelling the world or playing with the pros. He's a huge part of it.
— Frances Tiafoe
I'll back up anything my dad says.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.
— Flea
I caught the acting bug from my dad.
— Finn Wittrock
I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.
— Faye Marsay
My dad was a strict Muslim. He had a lot of rules.
— Fantastic Negrito
My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
— Ezra Koenig
It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out.
— Evan Peters
Every time I'd sing or play piano when I was a child, my dad would yell up from the basement, 'That's B-flat!'
— Ethan Canin
I got family in the U.K. on my dad's side of the family. My grandfather's brother moved to the U.K. from Jamaica. It's a pretty big family I'll have there.
— Errol Spence Jr.
For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.
— Erin O'Connor
My dad grew up in Pittsburgh in the '50s, and he used to sing Four Seasons songs on the stoop. He made me listen to Cousin Brucie - the guy who broke the Four Seasons on the radio. So I knew all of their songs, but I didn't know they were all by the same group.
— Erich Bergen
My mom and dad are Republicans. At least two of my brothers are.
— Eric Swalwell
The best thing about doing those Hallmark movies is my dad loves them. My dad watches all of those Christmas movies, not just ones I'm in. He watches them all, so the first one I did, it was like my Christmas present to my dad.
— Eric Johnson
My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.
— Eric Bristow
When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.
— Eric Bana
I take the sporting genes from my dad.
— Eniola Aluko
Especially in front of my dad, I don't like being weak. I don't like crying in front of my dad because I don't want to make him cry.
— Fran Kirby
My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.
— Florence Pugh
My dad would play 'The Blue Album' a lot, the first Weezer album, and that influenced my alternative indie thing and that's kind of how I found tons and most of my favorite bands.
— Finn Wolfhard
My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
— Finn Jones
My parents got put into jail, both my mom and my dad.
— Farrah Abraham
When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.
— Fantasia Barrino
Our dad hugged us and kissed us so much that some friends and relatives complained that he was going to turn us into sissies or homosexuals. But my dad didn't care. Let them raise their kids in a reserved and reticent way. He grew up in Israel, and his boys were going to be hugged and kissed by their father and know they were loved.
— Ezekiel Emanuel
My dad was Quaker and a businessman.
— Eva Marie Saint
My dad started off in scrap metal, real men doing men's jobs.
— Esther McVey
My father was never anti-anything in our house.
— Errol Flynn
My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
— Erin Andrews
When I grew up, my dad always used to watch 'Star Trek' and any and every sci-fi show you could imagine. I used to watch it with him, and I loved it.
— Erica Cerra
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
— Eric Stonestreet
I'm a hands-on dad.
— Eric Dane
My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.
I was helped by the fact that my dad is a cricket fanatic and that my three brothers and two sisters all played. It's just part of our family.
— Eoin Morgan
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
— Enid Bagnold
Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
— Foster Friess
My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
— Fleur East
My dad is a screenwriter, so he always used to watch movies for inspiration when I was a baby. I would watch movies with him, I guess, in the background.
My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
— Felicia Day
Somewhere my dad gave up. He was really so successful at his level that after a point he could not handle failure.
— Farah Khan
My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.
Mum and Dad have come to Sydney to see me off on the two trips to Wimbledon. Each time I thought I mustn't cry 'cos that'll start Mum off. Each time I really bawled, and then she started up.
— Evonne Goolagong Cawley
My dad once showed me 'The Guns of Navarone' when I was a kid. I haven't rewatched it since, but it gave me such a warm feeling.
— Ethan Peck
My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
— Estelle
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
— Ernie Harwell
My dad built his business by providing products he figured the customers would want.
— Erik Prince
My dad was a cop.
My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.
— Eric Stoltz
My dad was in furniture for 35 years. He got run out of furniture when everything went to China, went overseas. Manufacturing in the country broke down. Everything left.
— Eric Church
I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'
My microphone skills were developed at a young age watching my dad on the microphone. My dad DJ'ed bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, things of that nature.
— Enzo Amore
