Jovan Adepo Quotes

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

I'm a different person who's not my father or my mother. I want to be treated differently from them. I am myself, Twinkle Khanna. I am proud of being the daughter of such illustrious parents, but I would not like to be compared with them time and again.

When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me.

I never speak for my husband, and I never speak for my children. It's a rule. Believe me, it is.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

I deliberately try to carry a different perception of myself as opposed to my father's. I respect my dad and his body of work, but I can't give him credit for what I am today. As a person, I give my parents full credit; career-wise, no.

In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

I mellowed out; my daughter mellowed me out, and I don't get mad at anyone.

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.

Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.

Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

I've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.

There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life.'

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.