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“Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.”

“I had to figure out my own faith. That was something I figured out a while ago when I was 18. But I can always stand on the fact that my dad has been a great example for me. Beyond that, building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.”

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Author:Anthony Evans

“My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.”

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Author:Josh Brolin

“I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do.”

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Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I knew that I had to be a preacher. I had to be a minister, which was a puzzle to me because my dad was a businessman. It was a family company and I assumed that I would take it on from him.”

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Author:N. T. Wright

“I love my dad. He used to be a professional wrestler in Mexico. So it was cool growing up with him, because when he hit us, he didn't really hit us.”

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Author:Felipe Esparza

“I just love to sing, so like my dad's advice when I was younger - anytime you get a chance to sing, just go out there and do it! I truly just love the actual singing.”

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Author:Lauren Hart

“My dad knew that if I wanted to make a career out of it, I needed to go to NASCAR rather than dirt racing. Personally, I like dirt racing a little bit more. It's a little more fun.”

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Author:Tanner Berryhill

“My dad was so influential in my career. It was a fulfillment of every athlete's dream. I dreamed about it as a kid. We played hockey in the backyard. We had silver buckets we carried around like the Stanley Cup. It was everything that you would hope.”

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Author:Matt Cullen

“My dad introduced me to the game, gave me a stick. Since then I've had a passion for it.”

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Author:Sidney Crosby

“Nolan Ryan helped me with baseball, and my dad passing away gave me a bigger heart.”

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Author:Randy Johnson

“My dad was the first one who said, 'You're going to end up behind the plate because you've got a very good arm and you're very smart when it comes to calling a game.'”

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Author:Jorge Posada

“I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.”

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Author:Venus Williams

“My dad always told me to play hard and know that the people you're competing with and against are working just as hard or harder. So don't let them out-work you.”

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Author:Tim Hudson

“My dad has never once told me after a fight that I did well.”

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Author:Oscar De La Hoya

“Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.”

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Author:Gilbert Arenas

“Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better.”

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Author:Patrick Kane

“My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.”

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Author:Andruw Jones

“My dad taught me that you have to work hard for anything you want in life, and I wanted to be good at playing basketball.”

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Author:Seimone Augustus

“Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.”

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Author:Josh Beckett

“My dad is my hitting coach. When I need help, I go to him.”

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Author:Robinson Cano

“Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in baseball and what it's about. He pretty much told me all this stuff when I was younger. Now it's just a matter of doing it.”

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Author:Prince Fielder

“My mom can still slap me silly and my dad still threatens to ground me.”

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Author:Cole Hamels

“My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it.”

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Author:Steven Stamkos

“I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.”

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Author:George McGovern

“My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation.”

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Author:Tim Allen

“My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.”

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Author:Rod Stewart

“My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.”

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Author:Ryan Giggs

“Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.”

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Author:Ryan Giggs

“My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.”

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Author:John Molina, Jr.

“When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.”

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Author:Leona Lewis

“I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.”

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Author:Rob Reiner

“Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could make my dad laugh uncontrollably. And whenever we had parties, some of the funniest people of my generation - whether it was Billy Crystal or Robin Williams or John Belushi - would be doing shtick.”

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Author:Rob Reiner

“My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.”

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Author:Matt Barr

“I was raised by a single dad, so I've always just kind of liked "guys" stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.”

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Author:Aisha Tyler

“I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.”

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Author:Aisha Tyler

“I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do. But I got fired as a secretary, and then I started studying, I started doing it just to earn money. And it took me a long time to learn to love it. And what I loved was telling a story. I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. I discovered in the process that it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and learn to see through many other people's eyes.”

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Author:Jane Fonda

“My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course I'll do that as well." But I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical and maybe the odd episode of [U.K. '80s TV drama] Casualty. My backup plan was to do something with children, to start a nursery school or work with underprivileged kids. And I still dream of maybe doing that in some way. I've always got children in my house, always.”

“My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.”

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Author:Taryn Manning

“I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.”

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Author:Rosario Dawson

“I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing.”

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Author:Sandra Bernhard

“My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.”

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Author:Eliza Coupe

“My dad, like, he's the most trusting human in the world.”

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Author:Miley Cyrus

“My dad used to tell me, 'Check the price, son.' Check the price, kids, check the price because there is a price to be paid for whatever you do in life, whether it is good or it is bad. Before you do something, ask yourself is it worth the price you have to pay?”

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Author:Larry Holmes

“I remember learning to drive on my dad's lap. Did you guys ever do that? He'd work the brakes. I'd work the wheel. Then I went to take the driver's test and sat on the examiner's lap. I failed the exam. But he still writes to me. That's the really nice part.”

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Author:Garry Shandling

“Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.”

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Author:William Hurt

“I don't know any woman in France who doesn't talk to firemen and smile at them, because they're always so sweet, and they're wearing those tight pants. Even my dad looks at their ass when they walk down the street!”

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Author:Julie Delpy

“I come from a different generation from my Dad.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'”

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Author:Elaine Stritch

“My dad is my dad. I love him, and I realize that he's as famous as he is. Of course, I don't look at him like everybody else does. Because I know his little faults, I know his weaknesses. Nobody's perfect. But he's my dad. Just like your dad is to you.”

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Author:Laila Ali

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