Grandpa Quotes

I`m a hunter, I hunt but I think there should be gun laws. I think there should be a lot of gun laws. I don`t want to lose my shotgun but there`s a real good reason why I use my shotgun. It came from my grandpa. His cheek was on it. My dad`s cheek was on it and I go out and hunt with my dogs. My gun`s an heirloom to me and my son, one day, when I`m gone, is gonna know, `Your dad hunted with that.` But, even though with the connection that I have to my gun, can I look at the NRA and say, `I think you`re out of line?`. I can say that.

(on his most famous role, Grandpa Munster) The role of Grandpa is not complicated because you`re wearing odd makeup or bizarre costumes. That`s not what complicates a role. What makes Grandpa a little odd is the fact that he had no prototype. When I approached this role, I knew that whatever I was doing was original. So no director could say to me, "Listen, remember how he did it, this is how I want it done." I worked very hard creating that character. I made those lines work. The walk and the posture all fit the character. As to the character itself, you might say that Grandpa was a kind of Dracula-type Major Hoople.

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa`s funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

My grandpa (jazz musician Art Quatro) would always ask, `What instrument do you hear when you listen to music?` I`m like, `All of it!` He`s like, `Well, then you`re a singer!` And I love to dance. But I don`t like being up in front of tons of people. I didn`t have that in me to do it, the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. If there`s a lot of people on a set, I get nervous. So music just wasn`t something I ever seriously considered.

He`s knows it like the back of his hand already. His grandpa went to the old Grimes School.

If it were up to me, how would the characters` relationships conclude in Serenity 2? Okay. Hypothetically speaking only. River and Zoe really hit it off, fall in love, and decide to form their own renegade girls-who-kick-ass space team and leave us in the dust; Mal realizes he`s more destroyed over Wash`s death than he ever thought and spends the rest of his days wearing Hawaiian shirts and drinking booze out of the engine; Simon and Kaylee have a set of genius triplets and turn the ship into a cocker spaniel search-and-rescue with "crazy Grandpa Mal" still at the helm cradling toy dinosaurs; and Inara finally realizes the potential in Jayne as a male companion, loans him a toga, and takes him back to the training house where they become King and Companion Queen...you know you want that sequel! (writing on her blog)

Country music is still your grandpa`s music, but it`s also your daughter`s music. It`s getting bigger and better all the time and I`m glad to be a part of it.

I`m still raising kids myself, so I don`t feel like a grandpa.

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.

The ride`s boring, ... but it is fun because I don`t have to go to school and I get to see my grandma and grandpa and aunt and uncle.

She and I did a record together called Flesh & Blood a few years ago. She`s been in and out of the business professionally. Right now she`s concentrating on being a mother - three years ago she made me a proud grandpa, so that`s been taking up a lot of her time.

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

A lot of children, grandchildren, really have no idea what these soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines did during that time period. To them, that`s grandpa. To find out what these men actually endured is amazing.

I was raised by my grandma and grandpa in Florida. My grandpa was a Primitive Baptist minister, and all of these ladies, I know. This is like coming home. It`s a joy to experience this young girl going through what she needs to go through to get to a place of comfort. To watch someone grow up and the village extend itself to her.

Grandpa was the executive. Dad was... well... not. He was something of the rebel instead.

I grew up in (trucking). My dad was a trucker and still is. My grandpa was a trucker also.