"I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set."

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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"My father started me singing in church."

DeForest Kelley, American Actor

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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."

Joe Lando, American Actor

Father, Dad

"My father loved people, children and pets."

Tony Visconti, American Musician

Father, People, Children, Pets

"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""

Charles Moore, American Architect

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"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."

Moon Unit Zappa, American Musician

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"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."

Dorothy Malone, American Actress

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"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."

Alan Ladd, American Actor

Father, Son, Chance, Footsteps

"I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it."

Colin Baker, British Actor

Father, End, Income, University

"And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently."

Paul Reiser, American Comedian

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"I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity."

Self

"You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting."

Movies

"Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance."

Accident

"I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater."

Work

"I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch."

Confidence

"I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex."

Sex

"My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember."

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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

"My father started me singing in church."

"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."

"My father loved people, children and pets."

"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""

"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."

"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."

"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."

"I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it."

"And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently."

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"I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity."

"You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting."

"Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance."

"I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater."

"I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch."

"I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex."

"My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember."

"You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything."

"There's a reason screens are only this thick."

"I don't think my parents know what I do."