"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."

Father, Writer

3

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."

Exlpore more Father quotes

"My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning."

Dakota Fanning, American Actress

Father, Dad, Mom, First, Name

"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

Father, Job

"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."

Miley Cyrus, American Musician

Father, Dad, Talk

"My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine."

Toots Thielemans, Belgian Musician

Father, Machine

"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."

Charles Manson, American Criminal

Father, Reflection

"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."

Paul Reiser, American Comedian

Father, Dad, Draft, End

"I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't."

Debby Boone, American Actress

Father, Dad, Fact, Fame, Wonder

"She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister."

Bill Griffith, American Cartoonist

Father, Sister, Problems

"Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along."

Steve Irwin, Australian Scientist

Father, Dad

"In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me."

Paul Reiser, American Comedian

Father, Dad, Idea, Fact

Explore more quotes by Hugh Leonard

"Gossip is more popular than literature."

Gossip

"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."

Family

"I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer."

Wife

"I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me."

Play

"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past."

Life

"I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished."

Wife

"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."

Grief

"We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were."

Love

"I've always believed in survival."

Survival

"I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking."

Men