We do have promises to keep. And my dad and Barack Obama are keeping them.
— Beau Biden
I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
— Bat for Lashes
My dad was a fabulous role model. I wanted to be just like him.
— Bart Starr
You can't erase Bill Cosby's contributions. That's the conflict. He's one of the most influential comedians of all time, and 'The Cosby Show' is one of the most influential sitcoms ever. When I watched as a kid, I wanted Cliff to be my dad. Everybody did.
— Baron Vaughn
My dad thinks I have a photographic memory.
— Baker Mayfield
My dad told me he wanted me to join in the business, but nothing was firm. He was quite young when he died, so we hadn't talked about it in depth.
— Azim Premji
Steph's such a good dad for girls. He's super attentive, and he's, like, not too manly to get down on the floor and play with them and have a tea party.
— Ayesha Curry
I'd always loved movies. I watch them all the time; my dad is a huge movie buff.
— Austin Butler
My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.
— Ato Essandoh
Everything that moved, I was kicking it. You can ask my mum and dad. A stone, a can, whatever.
— Ashley Young
But I'm quite liberal as a dad.
— Ashley Walters
When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer.
— Ashley Tisdale
I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.
— Ashley McBryde
My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in 'G.I. Joe' and 'Transformers' and Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy Smurf, so I grew up with the best bed time stories ever.
— Ashley Bell
My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.
— Arthur Darvill
I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.
— Arlo Guthrie
My mom was in the chorus of 'Hello Dolly' and 'The Worldly Players'; my dad would build the set.
— Ari Graynor
My dad is Joe Biden.
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
My dad was a career military man, so I had that kind of discipline and training.
The first record I heard as a kid? My dad is a great soul and blues fan, so he showed me James Brown. That was my first stuff, and I loved it.
— Bakermat
Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
— B. Wayne Hughes
My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African-American, so I had a pretty diverse culinary background to work with.
My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.
— Avicii
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
— August Strindberg
My dad is into cars.
— Asin
My dad worked in the IT industry, although I haven't got a clue what he did. He always tells me but it just goes over my head.
I heard stories about my dad. I wondered why he never protected me. I loved the man and I have still not got over the fact he wasn't there for me.
My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.
I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very silly ambition and introduced me to drama classes. Once I became fixated on that, there was no stopping me.
— Ashley Madekwe
My dad, he believed in me. My first year was hard for me. I came to the States with myself, and no one came with me.
— Asdrubal Cabrera
There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.
— Arne Duncan
I assisted on a lot of films outside my dad's company. I only did two of his films.
— Arjun Kapoor
My mentor was Clara Ward of the famous Ward gospel singers of Philadelphia. And my dad was my coach. He coached me. And just my natural love for music is what drove me.
— Aretha Franklin
Look, I'm happy to defend my dad. I don't think he needs any defensiveness.
When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
— Barry Hannah
I easily could've gone to a place like Florida Atlantic, but my dad pushed me to realize that my dream was to play somewhere big. He was right.
My dad took us to a couple of karate classes when we were young but we didn't really get into it.
— B. J. Penn
The only introduction to sports that I had before meeting my husband was Buffalo Bills football and Doug Flutely Flakes. My dad grew up in Buffalo and has been a Bills fan all his life.
Growing up, my dad took me to the opera.
— Ava Max
That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
— Atom Egoyan
When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.
— Ashton Kutcher
My dad spent most of my childhood behind bars. He went to jail 17 or 18 times. It was only when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2004 that we started to have a relationship.
I have grown up being a father. When my first son was born I was 17. I was a child bringing up a child. I was not capable of understanding what a dad was meant to be.
We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.
— Ashley Scott
My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.
They tried to make my dad play professional basketball. But he was married young, too, at 20 years old. He wanted to have a family and said that money was not enough.
It will be amazing to collaborate with my dad. It will be special.
— Armaan Malik
My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my dad taught himself how to frame pictures, and then he was a curator at an art gallery in the city I'm from. I'm an only child.
— Ari Millen
