Dakota Johnson Quotes

My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

My parents were artists, bohemian, hanging out a lot.

I think it's helped me to have two unconventional parents, who have always encouraged me to be myself.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.

I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.

Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.

There's no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.

Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.

My family was artistic and encouraged me to express myself. I was a show-off, so they took me to ballet class.

I'm starting to realise that there are certain themes that I return to, those being that there is no such thing as normal, and people finding their voice and living authentically. And also that you can be influenced and helped through an extended family.