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Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

I am a good dad I spend a lot of time with my kids.

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

I am probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I do just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like Blue Kentucky Girl, by Emmylou Harris, and Off the Wall, by Michael Jackson. It is all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can not have a music collection without Prince's Purple Rain - it just can not be done!

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I am on Downton Abbey.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It is not putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It is believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

I was really bright as a kid and tested well, and it was clear that I was going to get scholarships to any schools I wanted. My dad always said I could be an engineer at that time it was the elite of society: steady job, working in science, which was then the answer to every problem we had. It was kind of a mandate. Kind of a dream he had for me.

My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

I was not aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I do say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, oh, is he Ralph Harris? And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

I am probably going to get in trouble for this but American Dad is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.