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" Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day. "
Jay Leno
Hills
Funny
Day
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" My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true, they felt that way. As for my dad, I could not do anything wrong. So, if I did something wrong, I would put the blame on them, and he would shout at them. "
Sonakshi Sinha
Believe
Blame
I Am
" By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' because my dad was always saying to me, 'Pick a career path where you're always going to be necessary.' But by junior year, I was president of choir, I was the lead in the school play, and I just loved being onstage performing. "
Aja Naomi King
Path
Doctor
School
" I really, really like interior design. I grew up in a really old house outside of Philly that was built in 1821. My mom is really into antiques, and my dad is very mid-century. They're not together anymore, so in the middle of growing up, I, all of the sudden, had two houses that were very different but really well done in each of their own ways. "
Abbi Jacobson
Mom
Well Done
Together
" I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.' "
Cameron Diaz
Matter
Friends
Smoke
" My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything. "
Matt Lauer
Jewish
Mom
Anything
" Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good. "
Lady Gaga
You
Tell
Good
" My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s. "
John Cusack
Company
Summer
Movies
" When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.' "
Pat Summitt
Every Day
Farm
Grow
" I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into. "
Joel Osteen
Tried
Pressure
Try
" I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world. "
Ryan Eggold
World
Sister
Mom
" I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it. "
Maika Monroe
Independence
Loved
Day
" I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad. "
Oliver Hudson
Want
Think
I Think
" A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.' "
Michael Eisner
Family
You
Attention
" The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. "
Bertrand Russell
Children
Our
Credit
" As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I'd score 40 points. I'd come home and say, 'Look dad, I scored 40.' He'd never have a smile on his face. He'd be like, 'I saw that move you did. What if you'd hurt your knee?' "
Shaquille O'Neal
Home
Smile
Fall
" I used to see my dad and his brothers rhyming, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I'm like any other boy, always wanting to follow in his father's footsteps. "
Romeo Miller
Always
Follow
Father
" I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' "
Ralph Nader
Political
Me
Father
" My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble. "
Clint Eastwood
Trouble
You
Believe
" My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother. "
Broderick Crawford
Telling
Mother
Father
" Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten. "
Conrad Hall
You
Gone
Never
" It's definitely harder being a dad than a coach. "
Tony Dungy
Than
Harder
Coach
" It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job. "
Tony Dungy
Think
Job
I Can
" Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway. "
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Men
Parents
Time
" I love being a dad. I just love it. "
Jerry Seinfeld
Love
Just
I Love
" My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me. "
Nate Robinson
God
Me
Mom
" I gotta be honest with you. I'm kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels? "
Bill Burr
Women
Mom
Jealous
" I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways. "
Jon Hamm
Color
Jewelry
Life
" The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. "
Evangeline Lilly
Life
My Life
People
" Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God. "
Joyce Meyer
Truth Is
Wife
Truth
" My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. "
David Rockefeller
Along
Philanthropy
Grandfather