Michael Keaton Quotes

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

Pro wrestling is what my dad did.

My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

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.

My dad's a sound designer, and he used to take me to work with him.

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. It's always been easy, the legalese.

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of grew up around that.

I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!