“My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?”
David Hyde Pierce
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad. / They may not mean to, but they do. / They fill you with the faults they had / And add some extra, just for you.”
Philip Larkin
“It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.”
Yeardley Smith
“My dad still doesn't understand why people are paying me to walk their dogs. America is a very positive country. Here, you can be whatever you want. It's awesome. A guy can cross the border 14 years ago and now have his own TV show. Only in America.”
Cesar Millan
“I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was 16 out of the blue.”
Gerard Butler
“You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.”
Dusty Baker
“I remember as a kid I lifted weights. Not because my Dad told me to, but because he said in order to be better you have to do something the kid next door wasn't doing.”
Rod Brind'Amour
