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 on dad
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 on dad
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 on dad
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 on dad
My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins. Melanie Fiona on dad
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 on dad
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 on dad
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 on dad
As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food. Danny Bonaduce on dad
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 on 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 on dad
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 on dad
My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves. Moon Unit Zappa on dad
My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back. Kate Walsh on dad
My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. Tom Glazer on dad
Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad. Max Cannon on dad
Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars. Bruno Tonioli on dad
When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover. Bruno Tonioli on dad
Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out. Randy Harrison on dad
Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad. Dan Auerbach on dad