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What I respect about my dad is he comes forth, and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person. I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

My dad is military and law enforcement.

My dad and my mom have always told me, 'Be who you are.'

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

My dad served in the Australian Navy until I was a toddler.

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.

When my dad died, it was as if my mum died, too.

My mom loved road trips, and sometimes we'd drive down to North Carolina. Though my parents were separated, she wanted me to stay connected with my dad.

When I first moved out to L.A., I was still 17. The deal with my dad was that I would be able to live out there if I were to treat my acting classes like college classes. So when I moved, that's all I did: trained and auditioned.

I was scouted by this talent scout back home. She found me because I used to make my dad these CDs of my music, and I think that some guy that he worked with had a niece who worked with the talent scout, or something really drawn out, kind of word-of-mouth.

I didn't have the best relationship with my dad. I was bullied in school, picked on. I remember the first time of just trying to connect with girls. It was just rejection after rejection. So I always felt ugly.

My dad had a candy-apple red sparkle drag boat with a giant hemi engine in it that he raced professionally. The sound of that engine was the most incredible sound ever.

I didn't actually get along with my dad when I was growing up, so by the time I was in my 20s, I didn't think I was going to be a writer.

My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.

My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

My dad made sure he gave me everything, he sacrificed what he had to, to make sure I had what I needed to perform at the best level.

I was the first BSB dad. I was the first one to join the club.

You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad.

My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.

My early memories are full of football talk around the house, of Dad standing on the terraces at Ayresome Park, of the occasional precious new pair of boots.