My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didnt have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad. – Matt Damon
I come from an ordinary family – my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker – and weve always loved racing together. – Sebastian Vettel
My dads a scratch golfer and Ive got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two. – Rory McIlroy
I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. Ill never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know theyll never have to work another day. Ill do whatever it takes to look after them. – Rory McIlroy
My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time Im home. – Levon Helm
Although my dad was a doctor, we werent necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians. – Lisa Loeb
Im the fun dad, I am also the disciplinarian. – Johnny Knoxville
Im into being a dad, thats where my focus is most of the time. Im an actor thats my job, but its not my life. I have a lot of other interests too. – Paul Walker
We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldnt provide security, the relationship unraveled. – Kenny Loggins
My dad taught me to play bass. Hes a bass player he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didnt show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot. – Mayer Hawthorne
My dad calls me Mac a lot, from Mike Tysons Punch Out – Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on Punch Out. – Mayer Hawthorne
I dont think Ive had a holiday in my entire life that wasnt about my dads work. – Kat Dennings
My dads gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships – how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love. – Mike Mills
When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. Hed use his right hand, so Id have to use my left. – Joe Frazier
Ive got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybodys equal. – Nicholas Hoult
My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. Hes a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didnt speak to him for 10 years. – Larry Elder
If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, its my dad, but he did not feel that way at all. – Larry Elder
My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because theres an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if youve been a difficult teenager. – Robbie Coltrane
Parents dont understand kids and kids dont understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad. – Mark Hoppus
My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle whos a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers. – Benicio Del Toro
