Vanessa Kirby Quotes

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father.

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.

I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It was a household that preferred me working, which threw me off completely.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

Not having a father always made you feel that perhaps you weren't quite the same as other people. You felt you weren't complete.

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

I couldn't be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad.

My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

I've always been more slight, and I've always sort of felt that I needed to be protected, especially with so many rowdy brothers and sisters.

I had a beautiful mother and a famous father, and I didn't know where I fit in.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

I didn't feel I belonged in so perfect a family.

My life is an awkward visit from the kids table.

My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.

A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

I grew up in a family where you could never be the center of attention.

Even though my parents were famous actors, I honestly felt most of the time that I didn't understand what was going on.

My parents are doctors, both my sisters are doctors, so I figured I'd just be a doctor too. Sometime in my junior year, I had this sudden realization that maybe that wasn't for me. I was sort of lost at sea.

I come from a large family, with 16 cousins. My cousins studied well and moved to the U.S. When we all gathered together for special occasions, they would be well groomed and confident. I was the odd, useless one out. All I wanted was to be able to earn without my dad's help and be self-sufficient enough to own a house and a vehicle.