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“When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.”

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Author:Isabel Lucas

“My dad is a good dad.”

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Author:Mindy McCready

“My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.”

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Author:Peyton Manning

“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.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?”

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Author:Cynthia Nixon

“My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.”

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Author:Jeremy Northam

“My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.”

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Author:Haley Joel Osment

“If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.”

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Author:Jack Osbourne

“My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.”

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Author:Peter R. Orszag

“My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.”

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Author:Rita Ora

“My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.”

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Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.”

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Author:Stacie Orrico

“It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out.”

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Author:Evan Peters

“When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.”

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Author:Vanessa Lengies

“My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.”

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Author:Aaron Levie

“My favorite place in the world is my dad's house in Montauk.”

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Author:Dylan Lauren

“Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.”

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Author:Dylan Lauren

“My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.”

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Author:David Oyelowo

“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.”

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Author:Jake Owen

“I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.”

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Author:Adam Oates

“My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.”

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Author:Mitch Pileggi

“I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.”

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Author:Sally Pearson

“On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.”

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Author:Tyler Posey

“My dad was a great dad.”

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Author:Bijou Phillips

“From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.”

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Author:Candace Parker

“On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.”

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Author:Candace Parker

“My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.”

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Author:Chris Pine

“When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?”

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Author:Chuck Pagano

“I had been on another procedural show, 'Cold Case,' for seven years, and I certainly respected the legacy of 'Law & Order,' even though I had only seen a handful of episodes. Being a dad meant the reality was that I probably knew more about Dora and Diego. But I saw the show with fresh eyes, and I wasn't coming in with a bunch of baggage.”

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Author:Danny Pino

“My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.”

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Author:Hunter Parrish

“I want to be a dad, first and foremost. I want to be a good father. I've spent so much of my life on the move and travelling around the world that just to set up a home for my family and be a good dad is something that motivates me.”

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Author:Ricky Ponting

“I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.”

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Author:Teresa Palmer

“My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.”

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Author:Zara Phillips

“My dad's not a big talker.”

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Author:Zara Phillips

“I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“My dad is such a good man, hard-working.”

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Author:Kelly Reilly

“I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.”

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Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.”

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Author:Jamie Redknapp

“I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.”

Dad My Dad

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.”

Knows Dad My Dad

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.”

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Author:Keri Russell

“You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.”

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Author:Michael Reagan

“I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.”

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Author:Natasha Richardson

“You know, I'm just - I'm really happy for my dad.”

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Author:Nicole Richie

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