One of the things that was probably to Dad's discredit was that he was never a fund-raiser. But he didn't live in an era of TV ads.
— Bob Latta
I try to be a better dad and husband than I do pretend rock star.
— Bo Bice
My dad was an English professor.
— Blake Lively
My dad was this Jack-of-all-trades, entrepreneur type. I secretly think he may be a spy, when I really think about it and I kind of connect the pieces. That's what led us to moving to Japan when I was four.
— Bishop Briggs
The big things that I've learnt from my dad is that you can just say what you want to say.
— Bindi Irwin
A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.
I'd just like to carry on in Dad's footsteps. I think that Dad's spirit and passion lives in every single one of us.
I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure his message lives on forever. I feel like that's why I've been put on this planet - to get my message across.
My dad died when I was 15 and worked way too much.
— Billy Crystal
Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television shows as 'the dad,' but that was Kryptonite to me. I was like, 'This would be the death of me. I'll be a cesspool of niceness.' It doesn't feed me.
— Bill Pullman
I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.
I came from a Halloween-friendly home. My dad, Spencer, was a U.S. Marine captain. But when it came to Halloween, my dad had a soft spot. He would take his three sons and friends on escapades on Halloween night.
— Bill Moseley
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
— Bill Kreutzmann
I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called a Watergate, and some guy named Gerald Ford who my dad knew who had just become president, and how all these things fit together.
— Bill Huizenga
My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.
— Bill Gates
I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.
— Bob Beauprez
In the beginning, I was a stay-at-home dad. So I could actually focus on being a rapper. I could write. I could come up with ideas.
— Blueface
My dad was 32 in college, and my brother wore 32 in college. So I'm just going to stick with it.
— Blake Griffin
I'd like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad's message - his legacy - lives on.
One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan.
With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.
I'm trying to carry on my dad's legacy, and it is tough.
I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best.
My dad had two, sometimes three jobs. Besides running the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, he did jazz concerts, and he ran this great jazz label, Commodore.
We were driving by the local athletic association in Orange Park, Florida, and there was this sign for T-ball signups. I was maybe 6 or 7, and my dad looked at me and said, 'Hey, do you wanna give this a try?'
— Billy Butler
I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists - Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.
— Billie Eilish
I like to wear my dad's shoes to auditions as sort of a lucky thing. I feel like I'm on solid ground.
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
— Bill Nighy
My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.
My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
— Bill Keller
My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
— Bill Hader
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
— Bob Balaban
My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it.
My dad helped me understand songwriting because of him playing Babyface a lot. I don't even know if my dad realized that him just being him, him just living his life, loving what he loved, poured more into me than anybody ever would know.
— BJ the Chicago Kid
If I am able to pass on what I've learnt in my life, that's really wonderful, especially after losing Dad.
I'm driving my dad's old ute. So it's a manual ute. It's massive, so when people see me coming, they just kind of run away!
I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.
Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero.
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
— Billy Sherwood
My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.
My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.
— Billy Bob Thornton
I spent a lot of time on film sets with my dad at work, and as a kid, that's a very appealing thing, to watch grownups get to play dress-up and pretend that they're different people - and then get paid for it!
— Bill Skarsgard
I've never really been a television watcher and watched comedies, and I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television as the dad.
I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.
— Bill Mumy
My dad loved to 'arrange things' to take us kids to that scared the crap out of us on Halloween. He'd take us to the old 'Hermit's House' at the edge of town. He'd park the car 100 yards down the street and say, 'Go back there and get something off the front porch!'
My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.
My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.
