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"When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter."
"We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both."
"I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree. I was looking for - when I was looking for a voice to mix with my voice, I put on my father's work clothes, as I say in the book, and I went to work."
"My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge."
"I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts."
"I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career."
"My dad was a hard worker, very dedicated to his family - very smart. Didn't like to be told what to do. Kind of where I get my stuff from. One of the things that I've learned from my dad is - good or bad - is not to trust."
"Dad just told me that I'm the son of a dragon!And then he leaves?"
"I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad's killer comic book collection filled with Silver Age books from his youth...early Spider-Man, Thor, Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Detective Comics, Action Comics, you name it. Seeing those old books got me interested in new comics, so my friends and I would hit the local comic shop every Saturday to pick up the cool titles of my generation."
"I'm just a pretty regular dad."
"My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor."
"Even the mood of a lot of people, my dad gets on me a lot because he's like people love answers but I'm more for questions, ask the right questions."
"After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn't looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don't see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in movies."
"What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad."
"My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world."
"I've never been very fully employed either but just think of what it's like, you know, to go home with a mortgage payment you know and kids and everything else. My dad had that happen to him in the early '30s."
"Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad."
"I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv."
"I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad."
"I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad."
