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"The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically I don't think I was so different from a lot of dads who have three or four martinis when they get in from work, wine with dinner and so on."
"I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts."
"When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming."
"The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang."
"In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad."
"I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?' 'Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot.'"
"My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well."
"It's a very painful, eye-opening experience to realize, "Wait a minute, my dad actually doesn't want me to be successful because he's not happy." Whether you call it misery loves company, it's not like parents are bad people. It's a human trait. It's just a thing."
"My dad used to say 'Always fight fire with fire,' which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade."
"The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me."
"Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'"
"I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me."
"You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing."
"I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life."
"When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again."
"I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up."
"Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal."
"The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it."
"My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl."
"On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad."
