Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious. "
Bill Nighy
Style
Personal
Attractive
Related Quotes:
" You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad. "
Robert Griffin III
Determination
School
Mind
" I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous. "
Robert Redford
Remember
Fear
Kind
" When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away. "
Hugh Jackman
Me
Door
Daughter
" As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me. "
Christine Keeler
White
Real
Me
" The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Scary
You
Fear
" When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away. "
Dwayne Johnson
You
Family
Old
" When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months. "
Bill Nighy
Like
Couple
Play
" I don't care where you went to school. There - have I made your day? No? All right, I'll go further: I also don't care what your dad did for a living or how your mum voted. Nor do I mind whether you ate your tea in front of the telly, dinner at the kitchen table, or supper in the dining room. "
Robert Webb
Tea
School
Dinner
" But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives. "
Tony Dungy
Believe
Who
Children
" My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too. "
Daveed Diggs
Black
White
Young
" I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person. "
Tiffany Trump
Father
Motivational
Beach
" Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today. "
Bono
Overcoming
Me
Never
" Dad's cancer experience included periods of relatively good health as well as bouts of hospitalisation as he coursed his way through a variety of different chemotherapy treatments. "
Amy Hoggart
Good Health
Experience
Health
" My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path. "
Tony Hale
Path
Family
Appreciation
" Of course I am proud of my dad and where I come from, but I do have my own way of working my own style. "
Sofia Coppola
My Own
I Am
Style
" Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever. "
Bindi Irwin
Sure
Life
Want
" I grew up with a truck. My dad had one, so I like trucks. "
Lucas Till
Grew
Like
Truck
" It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. "
Dawn French
Myself
Life
Father
" I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started. "
Gary Numan
Know
Meet
Mother
" Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably. "
Gerard Way
Mom
World
Want
" I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done. "
Bill Nighy
Me
Football
Done
" My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson. "
Bubba Watson
Said
Want
Follower
" My mom has accepted my style. My dad is a little suspect with all the bright colors and loud stuff. He's a khakis and polo kind of guy. He's OK with it, but the loud stuff, he says I'm his little daughter. "
Chandler Parsons
Style
Loud
Mom
" I am blessed to have Mom and Dad. "
Kevin Eubanks
I Am Blessed
Mom
Blessed
" My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose my jobs carefully so I wouldn't have to take too much time off. It got harder toward the end with my A-levels; there were sleepless nights, and I was doing my homework on the plane coming home, but I pulled through. "
Georgia May Jagger
Home
Doing
Time
" My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family and had a lovely atmosphere, as we lived above the restaurant. It definitely made me want to work hard, whatever I chose to do. As the baby of seven kids, I was definitely a bit spoilt. "
Shane Filan
Long
Baby
Family
" Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household. "
Luke Bryan
Rain
Good
Growing Up
" 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
" 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
Pine
Raised
Game
" I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads. "
James Caan
Loved
Son
Never