I don’t know what it’s like to have a typical father figure. He’s not the dad who’s going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he’s such a motivational person.
I want to be a superhero dad to where my kid feel like everything I do is nothing wrong.
It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.
My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I’ve got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?
My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.
My dad makes me breakfast every morning; he’s very worried about my nutrition.
I think dad would be very proud of young people standing up to promote truth, justice and equality.
Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat, ‘Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.’
Don’t forget Mother’s Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad’s Third Wife Day.
I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun – I liked it for an actual job.
My dad was a supplier to the army and was not a very well-off person.
When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, ‘Dad we need a third political party.’ He said to me, ‘I’ll settle for a second.’
My dad is actually an amazing guitarist, and he always had an incredible record collection, which is how I discovered things like Jimi Hendrix and Santana. I’ll always be grateful for that.
When I was a child, I wanted to be a jockey. I love horses, but it’s not practical to have one in London. I also wanted to be an accountant, which isn’t glamorous at all, but my dad was one, and I quite liked maths.
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn’t audition. It was nepotism all the way.
I’ve never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.
Without my dad, I wouldn’t be here.
My stepmom’s from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I’m a white man… You may have noticed.
My mum, Jennie Buckman, was a north London Jew who, with my dad, proudly chose to raise me and my two brothers in Hackney.
I wanted to be the dad that was able to feed my daughter, hold my daughter, really be there for my daughter.
My role model is my dad.
Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
I hate short hair on men – the ‘real’ man is something I don’t know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.
I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on ‘Perrier’s Bounty.’ It was a small part, but it was really special.
