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I often talk with other actors about that time when you've just finished a job, because I think you do take on the characteristics of some of the characters you play. Sometimes it can be a great thing and sometimes it is a bit haunting because you are not quite sure how to leave it on set. My dad talks about it as being de-personalised.

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He is a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I did not speak to him for 10 years.

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it is my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there is an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I am still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.

Parents do not understand kids and kids do not understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.

I am the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids watch R-rated movies. I will walk by the movie theater and say, Let's go see that, and my kids will say, No, it is rated R. It is not appropriate for kids. I am like Uncle Dad. We have fun. I do not live with them, but I drive over four days a week.

I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they are the best songs ever.

I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I have inherited both sides.

You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It is just something that comes natural now.

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he is always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.