My dad put me in a theater group camp at Santa Monica Playhouse when I was, like, six, and then I started to realize I really liked it when I was 11 or 12; it was nice to just escape.
— Diana Silvers
When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.
— Dhani Harrison
My dad's side of the family were calm folk from England, but the other side just loved to party. Somewhere between those two factions is me.
— Devin Townsend
My dad was a roofer; my mom worked in elementary school.
— Derek Trucks
A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet.
— Dennis L. McKiernan
I can't tell you how many letters I've gotten where someone showed 'Sordid Lives' to their mom, dad, or family and used it as a tool to come out.
— Del Shores
I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.
— Deepika Padukone
I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.
— Dee Bradley Baker
I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.
— Debby Boone
I think the first concert I attended was Coldplay with my dad when I was around eight years old.
— Daya
Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.
— David Thewlis
I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.
— David Rudisha
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
— David Mitchell
As a kid, I would look at my dad and ask him why he was wearing jeans with his tux. Today I love to do it. It's just fun to be a little more unique.
— David Lauren
I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.
— David Icke
I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.
— David Harewood
On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.
— David Einhorn
When he was eighteen, my dad went off to college to become an architect.
— Diana Lopez
I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.
I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular.
— Deval Patrick
The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.
— Dennis Wilson
Dad worked as a security guard for United Airlines, and Mom was a housewife who cleaned houses to make ends meet.
— Dennis Haysbert
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
— DeForest Kelley
My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.
— Dee Rees
I had to move away from home at 14 and live in a club house in Romford for three years, only seeing my mum and dad twice a week.
— Declan Rice
My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.
— Dean Norris
When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie.
— Dawn Richard
The vampires of '30 Days of Night' never really came into discussions early on. They did later when we were trying to figure out the pathology of the 'Twilight' vampires. '30 Days' is a completely different film. If you are a kid, please ask mum and dad before you watch that one!
— David Slade
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
— David Rockefeller
When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.
— David Milch
My family actually moved a lot growing up. I really only lived in one place every five or six years, and then we'd move again. That was just for my dad's work.
— David Lambert
My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?
— David Hyde Pierce
I'm a man. I'm not gonna wear dad jeans or whatever you call them.
— David Harbour
I'm turning into a stricter dad.
— David Duchovny
I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.
I guess I figured out my dad was a fight coordinator pretty early, because I always saw him running into walls and stuff and nobody got mad at him, but it took me a lot longer to figure out what Mom did, because it was usually stuff on the telephone.
— Devon Bostick
My dad worked on ambulances for a while; my mother had a lot of different jobs with the city.
— Desiigner
My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.
When my mom and dad got married, they lived in south Boston, which is where the first six of my brothers were born. After that, they moved to Minnesota, which is where the other five of us were born. So there's 11 of us.
— Denis McDonough
There are certain things I talk to my mom and certain things I speak to dad for. But I also know that it has never been that I can tell my mum something and my dad won't know. They are very dependent on each other even though they may not say it or realise it.
I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon.
My kids don't slow down, but they like to hang just with us, with mum and dad. They play with us and we play, too.
— Deborra-Lee Furness
I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
— Dayo Okeniyi
I love being a dad.
You, Dad, in the large scheme of things, don't matter. I, Dad, don't matter. We're vectors on the grids of cellular life.
— David Shields
My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service.
— David Robinson
My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.
— David Mamet
I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.
— David Keith
I've got good genes. My dad was a martial arts instructor - and he was good.
— David Haye
It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.
— David Grinspoon
