If I have 1% of my dad's brain, I'll be happy. He's so quick.
— Tamara Ecclestone
'Boy' was about my dad.
— Taika Waititi
I didn't want to be a deadbeat dad, so I said, ‘OK, my mission is to provide for my son in the future,'
— Taboo
There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I was living out of my truck for a short while. My dad wanted to emancipate me at 16 and send me to music college.
— Synyster Gates
If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.
— Suzanne Collins
My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
— Susana Martinez
I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.
— Suresh Raina
I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s. My dad worked in IT, and my mom was a teacher.
— Sunny Hostin
My mom is my heart. She was a rock for me even though she was not around as much as dad.
— Sunidhi Chauhan
I bought Doc Martens when I was 13, and I wore them pretty much every day until I was 20. They stank, and my dad wouldn't even let them in the house, but I was completely in love with them.
— Suki Waterhouse
My dad was a keen philatelist and, when he died, he left me an album he'd curated over some 40 years. He'd handpicked every item, saying each one reminded him of me. I opened it to discover the pages were full of beige stamps bearing the image of George V. Take from that what you will.
— Sue Perkins
I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.
— Stuart Appleby
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
— Steven Spielberg
My dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers who were known in the area as Peaky Blinders, that's the stories I heard.
— Steven Knight
Dad knew how to disagree without being disagreeable or rude.
— Steven Ford
My brothers bullied me, so I cried a lot as a kid. It was the only defense I had. Telling them to stop wouldn't work. The crying would bring my dad. Dad was my cavalry.
— Steven Adams
My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British.
When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
— Tahmoh Penikett
Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
— Tabatha Coffey
I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
— T. J. Perkins
My dad makes me breakfast every morning; he's very worried about my nutrition.
— Syd
Nobody says Nico Rosberg is only in F1 because his dad was a famous racing driver who funded his karting career and helped him get into F1. It s a bit unfair just to focus on the fact that my husband is in F1 and it's the only reason I'm in an F1 car.
— Susie Wolff
My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me.
— Susan Strasberg
I've always been ballsy. My dad is a blunt northerner, and maybe I've got a bit of that in me. I just kind of steam ahead.
— Suranne Jones
My dad likes my honesty and has always stood by me due to that.
— Suniel Shetty
I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.
— Summer Sanders
Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.
The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.
— Stuart Scott
My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.
I have lots of memories of staying at campsites in the West Country and France, of the Carpenters playing on the eight-track, and of my dad cursing under the broken-down VW camper van. I loved camping, but I wouldn't much fancy it now - I'm too old to rough it.
— Steven Mackintosh
I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.
— Steven Gerrard
My dad wasn't the best speaker like a Bill Clinton, or a Henry Kissinger, but he had character.
My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.
— Steve Zahn
My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.
— Tagg Romney
My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther.
— SZA
I grew up in a house that was constantly under construction. It's been under construction my whole life. My mom loves interior decor, and my dad loves construction - he loves demolition and building new walls.
Racing's in my blood. My mum met my dad when she went to buy her first motorbike in his shop.
My dad never had a bank balance of more than three lakh and was always extremely compassionate towards his producers.
— Suriya
My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.
— Suraj Sharma
My dad lost his father when he was nine and ran away from home to come to Mumbai to feed his mother and his three siblings.
Growing up I always watched WWF with my dad on Saturdays. It was our thing!
— Summer Rae
My mum has recorded all my programmes and not watched one. My dad says he finds it embarrassing.
I definitely have my dad's competitive streak in me.
— Stuart Broad
I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
My mum was a bookies' runner at nine years old and my dad's uncles were Peaky Blinders and gangsters.
Truly, what the Secret Service did for us is that they saved my dad's life twice.
Dad lived his life in a way that it was his character, not his circumstances, that dictated what his life looked like.
