"It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine."
5
"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."
7
"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."
3
"When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart."
5
"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."
8
"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."
6
"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."
4
"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."
6
"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!"
8
"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."
5
"I think my dad has helped me tremendously."
8
"I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into."
3
"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."
5
"Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position."
5
"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."
4
"I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage."
8
"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."
7
"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."
5
"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."
4
"My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about."
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