As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years. James Ellroy
I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad. Lisa Guerrero
So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan. Lisa Guerrero
When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me. Lisa Guerrero
I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him. Shaun Alexander
You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine. Shaun Alexander
We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around. Lil' Romeo
I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds. Curtis Joseph
Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age. Toni Braxton
I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps. Trisha Yearwood
We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know. Trisha Yearwood
From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages. Hoda Kotb
So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: '10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He's a lawyer.' He didn't know what was going on. He didn't even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I'm dating their dad! Hoda Kotb
Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London. Tom Hardy
I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day. Tom Hardy
My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins. Melanie Fiona
I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course. Jeremy London
Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful. Roman Coppola
My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad. Derek Jeter