My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

My father was an all-American football player.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early 30s. He's got a son. He's raising his son as a single father.

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.