"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."
5
"When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set."
6
"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."
6
"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."
5
"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."
5
"My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad."
8
"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."
7
"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."
7
"Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today."
4
"I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes."
4
"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."
9
"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."
5
"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."
3
"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."
6
"My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people."
7
"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."
5
"I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me."
6
"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."
5
"My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird."
6
"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."
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