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When I was fourteen, Mom and Dad sent me to St. Joseph High School, the Catholic school up the hill from our place, housed in a 1950s-era tan brick building sometimes confused for a light industrial structure due to the surprisingly high smokestack of its old incinerator.

I'm built like my dad. Stocky, strong.

In the early 1970s, I got a milling machine apprenticeship at Vauxhall in Luton. My dad was a pattern maker at the factory. He worked every day of his life there and my brother worked there, too. I remember the pamphlets on all the new models arriving home.

My dad was a trained carpenter and worked for Vauxhall Motors. We had money, though not a great deal.

When 'Wherever I Lay My Hat' went to number one in 1983, I was still driving a green Viva HC that my dad had given me. People would see me drive past and say, 'It can't be him,' but you don't get any money until about six months after a record is a hit.

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.

I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

We get people saying, 'Thanks for the laughs,' but it's very different when you get people coming up and saying, 'Thanks, my dad watched your show, and as a result I made him go and get his heart checked.'

In many ways I was lucky: my dad had a quadruple bypass in his fifties. When I had the heart stents, the guy who did it said, 'Well I didn't put them in for you to go and sit by the fire, so get up and go out.'

In fact, fishing's the thing I most associate with my dad.

I think I can sing, and if you ask Bob Mortimer he will tell you, 'Will you shut up,' and my children they'll say, 'Shut up, dad,' because I sing all the time.

I didn't have a dad around to pick me up when I fell, throw the ball to me outside. I always wonder how it would be if I did have a dad there.

As a kid, I know that most of my parents' friends were because my mom made friends with them, and my dad went along. I know a lot of dads who do that. I think it just starts to happen with guys. In the case of my father, he was probably just too busy reading books about Titanic.

My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.

I spent many, many hours in the stack at the University of Washington library just wandering around, when my dad was working, as a kid.

Initially, kids are attracted to Superman as a hero because he can take care of problems and still appear as friendly as your dad.

My dad is a part of who I am, and he was a very hard working person and someone who worked to achieve his goals and make sure his family is straight and I always admired that. My mom worked so hard. I had two hard-working parents around me.

My dad worked hard to take care of six kids. He worked hard to make sure we had everything we needed.

My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.