My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system. – Winona Ryder
My brother and I both used to worry about dying at 40 because our father died at 40. That probably wasn’t terribly rational, since my father led a rather unhealthy lifestyle, shall we say. – Wes Craven
I was born in 1957 as the second son of the late Sat Paul and Lalita Mittal. My father was a politician and, at one point of time, an MP. A gap of two years separates me from both my elder brother Rakesh and younger sibling Rajan. – Sunil Mittal
My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time. – Steve Coogan
I’m a union guy; I’ve always been. I’ve been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy. – Tony Danza
Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria. – Shereen El Feki
When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer had the funds to pay for college. If I wanted to continue, I would have to do it on my own. – Terry J. Lundgren
Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside – with a new father and new life. – Sam Taylor-Johnson
When I was growing up my mother would say, ‘Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him’. – Tom Hooper
I am not a famous person at home – I’m just a guy here. I’m a father, I’m a companion, I’m a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself – I am just a guy. – William Hurt
My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me. – Sarah Shahi
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was. – Tim Burton
In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. – Tony Visconti
My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, ‘Ladies of the Chorus,’ as Marilyn Monroe’s father. – Teri Garr
As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects. – Solomon Ortiz
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father – dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes. – Whittaker Chambers
I owe my life to my father. I remember that my first Christmas present was a ball. In the district where we lived, there weren’t many kids who had one. – Sergio Aguero
Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That’s basically what we have been doing. We’re just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor. So, in many ways, my father was a sailor before I was born. – Tobias Lindholm
My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia – and decided to take me along for company. – Scott Anderson
I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back. – Steven Spielberg
There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice. – Said Sayrafiezadeh
Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn’t see my own father. – Stephen Sondheim
I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’. He played my father on ‘Becker,’ and he’s still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he’s my favourite physical comedian. – Ted Danson