My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out. – Zosia Mamet
I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career. – Patrick Duffy
I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me. – Patrick Duffy
I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values – even if they rarely talked about them. – Harry Reid
My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard. – Dean Norris
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
I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible… but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game. – David Hyde Pierce
I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs. – Jake Owen
Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them. – Nancy Sinatra
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
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
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery – which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove. – Poppy Z. Brite
From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance. – Luke Bryan
We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything. – Ashley Scott
There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad. – Arne Duncan
I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company. – Samuel West
My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability. – Thomas Jane
I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver. – Chely Wright
Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film. – Mel Torme
My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views. – Jonathan Krohn
