Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
(n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a...
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not...
My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.
My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.
I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.
I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very muc...
My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.
Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing...
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn...
I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.
One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives...
I'm a good dad I spend a lot of time with my kids.