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We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

From time to time, I will look back through the personal journals I have scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: 10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He is a lawyer. He did not know what was going on. He did not even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I am dating their dad!

Being an only child, I did not have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there was not anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

My dad still calls me and makes sure I am taking my vitamins.

I am gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I will have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

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

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That is not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It is a different point in both our lives.

In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.

And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we are expressive. Nobody holds back.

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

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

Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.