Me Quotes

I went through a brief phase when I thought of other career options: being an air hostess and even a psychologist. But eventually, my destiny led me to acting. Moreover, my dad being an actor, I have grown up in a very filmi environment. I was encouraged to watch films since I was a child.

~ Shraddha Kapoor

I've got a love affair with Harley-Davidson. One of my earliest photos with my dad is of him holding me as a baby on his bike.

~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I remember when I was younger. Dad's agent came round, and I asked if she would represent me. She didn't represent children at the time, but I wouldn't let her leave the house until she agreed. I've always been quite headstrong.

~ Eleanor Tomlinson

I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.

~ Natalie Cole

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.

~ Bill Gates

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

~ Bill Gates

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

~ Bill Gates

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

~ Joel Osteen

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

~ Rand Paul

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

~ Katy Perry

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

~ David Bowie

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

~ David Bowie

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

~ Steven Spielberg

I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.

~ Tracy Morgan

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.

~ Tracy Morgan

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

~ Guy Fieri

My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.

~ Rita Ora

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.

~ Shia Labeouf

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

~ Venus Williams

I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.

~ Andie Macdowell

My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.

~ Charli Xcx

At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.

~ Shakira

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

~ Christina Milian

If you're a girl, you're always Daddy's little girl. You're vulnerable, no matter how worldly or sophisticated or strong you'd become along the way. My dad Lionel let me know how proud he was, even as he kept me from being too big for my britches.

~ Donna Brazile

My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.

~ Laura Dern

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

~ Jason Bateman

I've always loved video games. I played 'Ms. Pac-man' with my dad, and I Ioved 'Galaga' and 'Tempest' and grew up on the standing arcade games. Even to this day, my dad will call me if he's playing 'Ms. Pac-man' and hold the phone up to the game.

~ Aisha Tyler

I think my dad's post-presidency, he didn't miss a beat. He didn't get into any kind of 'Woe is me.' He dusted himself off and led an incredible life since 1993.

~ Jeb Bush

I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.

~ Theophilus London

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

~ Bono

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

~ John Malkovich

When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in.

~ Priyanka Chopra

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

~ Sam Shepard

People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.

~ Bob Newhart

My dad died of a heart attack when I was 15. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school. I went through a divorce - those not-so-great things are all a part of me, and they give me a place to go when I cover those stories on the news. I'm more empathetic, more relatable because of them.

~ Megyn Kelly

My dad was the way he was, but he also gave me a motto: never say die. Just to keep pushing and pushing, fighting until the end. He put it in my head that you're always going to fight, and you're always going to beat them.

~ Jason Day

When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.

~ Travis Scott

I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

~ Steve Carell

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

~ Alexa Chung

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

~ Stephen Curry