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My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I am home.

Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians.

I am the fun dad, I am also the disciplinarian.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

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

We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.

My dad taught me to play bass. He is a bass player he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever did not show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

My dad calls me Mac a lot, from Mike Tyson's Punch Out - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on Punch Out.

I do not think I have had a holiday in my entire life that was not about my dad's work.

I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.

OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, Why in the heck did you get married? Like, what was going on? What was that time? It is like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand 55.

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.

When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I do have to use my left.

I have got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.

My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.