I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.
— David Cone
Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
— David Cassidy
Some of my happiest childhood memories are going to the movies with my dad and seeing whatever was out that week. In 1977, when I was 7, it was 'Star Wars.' That was a life-changer.
— David Benioff
My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too.
— Daveed Diggs
When I was a kid I went and saw Bill Cosby with my dad, and I remember sitting there and laughing so hard.
— Dave Coulier
My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.
— Daron Malakian
I text with my dad during every 'Scandal' episode. We talk story lines, acting, and fashion.
— Darby Stanchfield
My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
— Danny Boyle
My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.
— Danielle de Niese
I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.
— Daniel Woodrell
My nana used to tape 'The Simpsons' when it aired on Sky. We'd get the VHS tapes - my dad would courier them from Nana's house to us - and we'd watch them on Sunday nights.
— Daniel Rigby
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.
— Daniel Radcliffe
I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
My dad was not happy about my not becoming an architect like him.
— Daniel Humm
My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
— Daniel Baldwin
My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
— Dana Perino
I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
— Dana Carvey
I'm just constantly trying to be a good dad.
— David Charvet
My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.
— David Beckham
My dad was big about talking about baseball and Latin players.
— Dave Martinez
My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.
— Dave Brubeck
My kids don't care about anything. I'm just Dad to them. They don't get excited about anything.
— Darius Rucker
My dad was a crab fisherman.
As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.
— Danny Bonaduce
My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.
— Daniella Alonso
My dad's view about coaching was that you have to express yourself. When I was young at academies, I wasn't allowed to do that.
— Daniel Sturridge
My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.
My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
I grew up in Mexico until I was 16, and then we moved to San Antonio because my dad's business was headquartered there.
— Daniel Lubetzky
I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.
— Daniel Bryan
My mom came to America when I was six years old, and I didn't live with them until I was ten. They worked really hard in factories, and my dad as a taxi driver, to be able to afford visas for my sister and I.
— Dania Ramirez
My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
— Dan Wheldon
As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.
— David Chang
And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
— David Bowie
When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.
— David Alan Grier
I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When he had parties, my sisters always played piano, and my dad played banjo.
— Dave Davies
I had a dad you know.
— Darrell Hammond
I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, because she knew he'd be furious. I probably would've gone to boot camp. Seriously.
— Daren Kagasoff
When I was 12 years old, my dad got into country music. My first CD was Wynonna Judd, and I loved it.
— Danny Gokey
My mom is Italian, and her whole family still lives in Italy. My dad is Australian, and his family lives in Australia, so we were raised there.
— Danielle Macdonald
I saw 'The Shining' when I was too young with my dad in San Francisco in the hotel room.
— Daniel Zovatto
There was a shop in Birmingham called Autographs, where I'm from in Birmingham. My uncles and dad used to shop there. They played professionally, too. When I started, I went to Autograph, and they had brands like Rick Owens. There are loads of brands, like my go-to brands that I will go to if I want to buy jeans, like DSquared or Balmain.
My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.
My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.
My dad was born in 1930 in Lithuania, located in Eastern Europe. He was 9 years old when the war started, and his family was sent to the Kovno ghetto. They were soon separated and sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.
— Daniel Breaker
Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
