Top 1200 American Dad Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.

I was a really involved dad - not because I'm such a wonderful person. I like being a dad.

My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I was meat and potatoes.

Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.

I love my dad so much. I don't have that cool thing where I have dad issues.

My dad likes Stack$ a lot. He's actually the first guy my dad has liked!

I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case.

My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do.

Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history.

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

My dad was the 10th of 11 children. My mother has three brothers. My dad was a salesman, my mum was a school nurse.

I'm a first-generation American. My mother is from Argentina. My father is from Italy. When my dad was around five or six, his family migrated to Argentina. That's where he met my mom. They got married, and moved to Los Angeles - North Hollywood, to be exact.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

My dad played my dad in 'Patriots Day' and that's why he thinks that's a good movie.

People who knew Dad used to say at times I was brought up as the son Dad never had.

My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.

We should really focus on an American First agenda, and these climate pacts and climate regulations have been designed to not necessarily give American workers and the American environment a head start. It really gives our competition a greater ability to compete internationally and disadvantage American companies.

As a kid... there's a veil of separation between you and your dad, especially when you have a dad who's under a lot of stress.

I mean, Dad's - you know, Dad's friendliest tone was a scream.

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

I hesitate to ever, as one dad, tell another dad how to raise their kids.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.

Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but also from Coke to jeans. It is entirely possible for people around the world to love American products, American books, American movies, American music, and dislike the policies of the government of America.

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

My dad being not the greatest dad in the world has made me a better parent.

I get a lot of my inspiration from my family, but I never got to meet my dad's dad.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

My dad's been like, 'You'll never beat me.' That's how my dad is.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity.

If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.

It is hard to have your own identity when you dad is John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, but I accept and love the fact of who my dad is.

My dad was a regular dad. At home, he wasn't Bonzo the animal. He was a very intellectual, quiet chap - not the beast we all know.

My dad moved to New York after he won "Soul Train" and the car and got settled in out there and was able to step right into Dance Theatre of Harlem and felt like he was in a show called "Omnibus" and "American Dance Machine."

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

In the show, we have recreated two sketches that my dad had, or pieces that my dad had developed. One that he had developed with my mother, one that Frank Oz had developed with my dad. And these are old pieces from the '50's and '60's, and we're going to develop more, too.

Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.

Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.

The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.

My mom and dad sang in the church choir. They also had a local group. They loved music, especially my dad.

My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.

I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time.... I was born to be a dad.

I'm basically like a dad; I've always been a dad.

I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.

Everybody wanna be a super dad and the best dad ever, but sometimes, I'm just realizing that I'm not perfect.

Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

I think there's a pride of what a real American can be. I mean, I'm a transplant, but I've got American kids and an American wife, and when I go back to England I feel more like an American, the way I look at the world, is more from an American perspective at this point. I've traveled every state 30 or 40 times, and have met an amazing array of people, and I have found Americans to be among the most kind and tolerant people I have ever met.

When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different voices.

My dad had me on the golf course. It was just something I could do with my dad.

There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.

I would say the dumbest thing I have heard is that my dad isn't my real dad.

I'd just like to carry on in Dad's footsteps. I think that Dad's spirit and passion lives in every single one of us.