I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.
— Steve Zahn
After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis - a couples' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.
— Steve Rushin
When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends.
— Steve-O
My dad was kind of a hipster, and a doctor.
— Steve Miller
Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.
— Steve Irwin
I'm a fun dad, but I don't know if I'm the fun, crazy dad.
— Steve Carell
My children see me being coach enough. I gotta make sure they see me being dad.
— Steve Alford
My dad passed away when I was 10.
— Sterling K. Brown
I arrive a month premature, with my dad's brains but not much else.
— Stephen Rodrick
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
— Stephen King
I used to play around and sing Randy Travis for my dad. I'd always be able to just mimic things.
— Stephen Dorff
I always knew I wanted an educational background, and my mum and dad were quite big on that.
— Steph Houghton
My mum and dad had creative jobs, but our family was a working family - so there wasn't an option of, 'Oh, when you're older, you're not going to have to work.'
— Stella McCartney
My dad was always the soldier I wanted to be.
— Stanley A. McChrystal
My dad owned Cadillacs all my life.
— Stacy Brown-Philpot
I was born after my dad came back from England and he wanted to raise us like European kids.
— Sowcar Janaki
My dad actually taught me how to do the catwalk because he used to do modeling. He taught me how to do that little swivel at the end.
— Sophie Lowe
My dad's an old football player.
— Steve Young
I remember seeing Letterman do stand-up on 'The Tonight Show.' Or, it's probably more accurate to say, I remember hearing him do stand-up, because the Carson show existed mainly as sound leaking under my bedroom door at night. I'd hear Johnny telling jokes and my dad laughing at them.
My dad loved Les Paul, and I wanted to be just like that.
The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
— Steve Earle
My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.
— Steve Breen
When I was a freshman and sophomore, I got booed every time I was put in the game. Then, in my junior and senior years, my dad got booed every time he took me out.
I've always been a fan of those guys. My dad was in military school and I have a bunch of buddies that are Marines, and I just kind of want to give back to those guys that gave more than enough for us.
— Stephen Thompson
I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types.
— Stephen Mangan
Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly.
— Stephen Karam
I moved to L.A. when I was, like, 6 months old. I was born in Georgia 'cause my dad was going to college at the University of Georgia for music. Then we moved to the Valley, and my dad was a songwriter out here.
I started playing with my dad, and then I started going to soccer schools in Sunderland and managed to get scouted from there.
My dad never gave me pats on the back or congratulations. There was always more to give and more to get done.
— Stefon Diggs
My dad was a basketball coach, and so I went to his games. But baseball was the sport I could enjoy with him, whereas with basketball, I wasn't with him.
— Stan Van Gundy
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
— Spike Milligan
Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.
— Soundarya
My dad has a lot of foresight and decided that I would not do any shows in Mumbai till I became a singer and got to sing my own songs. He knew that if I started earning money from shows, I would not have the time and aggression to rough it out to become a singer.
— Sonu Nigam
Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.
— Steve Schirripa
My first call is always to my dad. It's really rad. What had initially drove my dad and me apart - all my stunts and antics - has brought us together, closer than we've ever been. My dad's been a huge part of my team.
I'm very proud of my dad.
There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
My dad has even less emotion than me!
— Steve Clarke
I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.
My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.
— Steve Albini
My dad grew up in a little place near Charleston called Moncks Corner.
Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.
My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.
— Stephen J. Cannell
My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.
— Stephen Curry
My mum and dad were always careful with money.
My dad was real hard on me. He wasn't really big on congratulating and stuff like that.
My dad coached 41 years, and I was always around coaches.
It dates back to my dad and my uncles. They all got permits to go to Beverly Hills High School back in the '70s and early '80s. After they finished college, they came back and became football coaches there. So I was there with a permit.
— Spencer Paysinger
My mum and dad aren't actors, but we all sit around doing impressions.
— Sophie Rundle
