Logo
Quote by Bob Balaban
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school – he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative. – Bob Balaban

Other quotes by Bob Balaban

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see – you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location. – Bob Balaban

Category:
amazing
Author
Bob Balaban
Read Quote

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908… his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children – in the backroom all together – and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business. – Bob Balaban

Category:
dad
Author
Bob Balaban
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
dad
category

I didnt try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into. – Joel Osteen

Category:
dad

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, Go buy a postage stamp in London, Ill go and do it. – Emily Mortimer

Category:
dad

Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they dont know who my dad is, they think hes my coach. – Lydia Ko

Category:
dad

My mom and dad – they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasnt the end-all. They werent out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about What can we do as a family. – Candace Cameron Bure

Category:
dad

Random Quotes

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us – brown people – were looked at as the Others. – Mira Nair

Category:
Home

Theres a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldnt have if the music wasnt there. – Mike Figgis

Category:
Beauty

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others. – John Mason Brown

Category:
Charisma

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. – Roland Barthes

Category:
Language