If you’re a girl, you’re always Daddy’s little girl. You’re vulnerable, no matter how worldly or sophisticated or strong you’d become along the way. My dad Lionel let me know how proud he was, even as he kept me from being too big for my britches.
My daughter has seen the transition from struggling screenwriter to successful picture book author, and she’s enjoyed it very much because she’s a wonderful little kid. And she’s always believed in her daddy.
I’m very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I’m not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy’s field.
Given my belief that there is a divine purpose for my father’s life on this planet, given the way I was raised, it’s real hard to get angry. I get that from my daddy.
My daddy didn’t even sign my birth certificate. So I ain’t never had his last name.
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
I have become their idol. Like, Busta Rhymes has called me twice to come to rap with him, and Big Daddy Kane and Eric B and Rakim, I made a trip to do things with them.
When Radar goes home, Peg and Erin go down to meet him. Erin sees Radar in uniform and calls him Daddy. It so incredibly perfectly captured the heartbreak of being away from your child who was growing up without you.
I’m a daddy’s girl.
Daddy was fun-loving and lighthearted – he lived life to the fullest and was not scared to take a risk.
Daddy loved our country, he loved our history. He was always talking about American history and telling us stories from American history, and loved our most treasured values of freedom, democracy, justice.
On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o’clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christmas tree. We spend hours choosing, looking at every branch suspiciously. It’s always cold.
I love my fans, and I love my relationship with the fans, but when you’re a performer, and you’re used to being the mac daddy, the main cat, and all of a sudden you’re not that guy anymore, it’s kind of a whole different spectrum and a whole different level.
Hudson just melts my heart. When I come home, he says, ‘Daddy, daddy,’ and it just turns my day around.
The day that I saw Whoopi Goldberg on television, I cried so hard because I kept looking at my daddy going, ‘Oh my God. There’s somebody on TV that looks like me! She looks like me! Yay! I can be on TV! I can be on TV! I can do it! Look at her – look at her! She looks just like me.’
There was one thing my daddy wouldn’t tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can’t buy, is how to be able to treat people.
Every day, I wake the kids up. Morning time is kind of ‘daddy time,’ and that’s something I look forward to every day.
The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
We’ve been in business together ever since we were children, so back in the day, there were so many references to ‘your dad.’ Rather than wanting to sound totally hickified and go, ‘Well, my daddy said,’ we would refer to him as ‘Phil.’
Of course I was in love with my father as a child. He was Daddy, and our house came alive in a special way whenever he walked through the door. He’d romp and play with us; my sisters and I would literally squeal with excitement when Daddy came home.
I didn’t realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn’t even know that until a year or two ago.
For many characters, the prospect of having a child in their life brings up a lot of issues about their own parents. And who doesn’t love that? Bad mommy or daddy issues are a delicious staple in romance novels.
Because my dad’s Chinese-American, and they’re very concrete, he said, ‘There’s no money to be made in literature.’ So he told me to go into the sciences. And I was a good girl. And I did what Daddy said. And that’s how I ended up being a doctor. But you know, you just can’t stamp out that desire to tell stories.
I’m an absolute daddy’s girl.
Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.
My best album is probably my second one, It’s a ‘Big Daddy Thing.’ I like a lot of the songs on there. It was put together… just the structure of the album was tight.
I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That’s just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths.
Daddy Yankee and I have some of the same fans, but he reaches people I don’t reach. The same thing with Ozuna and Balvin and Karol G.
Everything I’ve done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn’t had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I’m told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn’t be where I am today.
