Celebrities share the best advice they ever got from their dads
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins is the daughter of a Vietnam War veteran.
Dads sometimes know best.
In time for US Father's Day on Sunday, a range of artists from film, television and music shared the most valuable lessons from their own dads. Share your dads' pearls of wisdom in the comments.
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PATTY JENKINS, Wonder Woman director: "Perseverance and focus, first of all, because I think that that kind of job of being a fighter pilot is strangely difficult. You're on your own and you just have to put one foot in front of the other, figuratively speaking, to get things done and to deal with whatever comes up. And that actually comes up. That is very present in my life as a director every day.''
JAMES TAYLOR, music legend: "Just to be there for your family. I've tried to be as much as possible. If there is a struggle, that's it, trying to balance family life and life on the road."
Blues icon Bonnie Raitt is the daughter of late Broadway musical star John Raitt.
HUGH JACKMAN, Hollywood actor: "Education. He preached education. And passion, like find whatever you're good at then do everything you can to learn every bit of it, and don't go out into the world until you've studied."
ASHLEY CAMPBELL, daughter of Glen Campbell, who is battling Alzheimer's disease: "This one piece of advice really stuck with me. We were on tour and it was toward the end of the tour, so he was definitely not as there, not as with it. So moments of clarity were very noticeable. He looked at me and said, 'How's your music going?' I, joking, said, 'It's going well. I am going to be a superstar!' Very self-deprecatingly. And he got really serious and he said, 'Be a super person and the superstar will follow.' That's Glen wisdom.''
CONNIE NIELSEN, Wonder Woman actress: "My father always said, `You belong in that room. No matter what, you can do whatever you want.'''
Kate Mara: 'There's nothing worse than kind of a half-a... handshake.'
BONNIE RAITT, blues musician: "I think his positivity and seeing the good in people. He just never said bad words about anyone. I really believe it was that outlook, really honouring people and trying to find out who they really are underneath what they present themselves to be.''
KATE MARA, Hollywood actress: "The one that I sort of use every day, I guess, is just a good handshake because in this business, specifically, but I'm sure everybody meets new people on a daily basis, a firm handshake, I think, goes a long way. To this day there's nothing worse than kind of a half-a... handshake from someone. I think it says a lot about your character.''
BRYAN CRANSTON, star of Wakefield, Breaking Bad and Malcolm in the Middle: "You reflect on being a son, you reflect on being a father, and it's a good time. For past issues that I've had with my father, now he's passed and you kind of think of things differently. But the joy for me is being so proud of my daughter, who's now 24 and an actor in her own right, and independent and a freethinking, funny, talented young woman.''
Bryan Cranston: 'For past issues that I've had with my father, now he's passed and you kind of think of things differentl.'
MAYIM BIALIK, co-star of The Big Bang Theory: "He taught me a lot of lessons. My dad had a really big personality, and he was a really gracious person. I don't know if it's a lesson in particular but it was a way that he was. He wasn't afraid to let his big personality show, and sometimes that was a good thing and sometimes it was a bad thing. But when he walked into a room you knew it. That's a powerful lesson, to see the presence of a person.''
MATT SMITH, star of Netflix's The Crown: "My dad said to me very early on, 'It's not the disappointments, son. It's how you get over them.' And that, that I'll pass that on to my son, you know? Yeah. He was 70 [recently] so we kind of celebrated his birthday. He's a very important man in my life, my dad. Probably the most important.''
LUCY DAVIS, Wonder Woman actress: "One of the things he said to me was, 'If you give, you get. But not if you give to get.' And I love that. And it made you realise that you just have to be the person you want to be just because that's what you want to be, not because you think there's going to be a reward at the end.''
TOM BERGERON, host of US Dancing with the Stars: "Well we'd go out in the back 40 and, you know, clear some of the brush, slaughter a few hogs and then have a big meal. That's in the old days, though.''
BARRY WATSON, star of Date my Dad: "My father always said luck is when opportunity meets preparation, so always be prepared, which I try to be!''
- AP
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