I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.
The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.
Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.
My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.
My dad heard of a studio on the radio, and it was advertised as a place for kids to meet kids, and it was actually a studio, and that's where I met my manager and agent.
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.
I'm a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.
My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.
I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.
My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
My dad doesn't watch 'Coronation Street.' But my mum is a massive fan. I'd like to think my dad will watch it for a few token episodes, as I'm in it.
The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'
