Marlene Dumas Quotes

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

I look so much like my dad - same chin, same cheekbones, same forehead - and I play a little like him too. But I am my mother's son. I am who I am because of her.

I am so much like my mother. When we're in a room together everybody always comments on how spooky it is. I would say I get most of the musicality from my mum - and my dad, but I think my dad is the poet, you know.

I've always kind of gotten my personality from my mom, and whether that's 'star quality' or whatever... a lot of her is in me.

I am a reflection of my mother.

The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

I am the younger version of my father. I try to be as normal as I can.

I look like my mother but behave like my father.

Most of Charlotte's character is really who she is. A lot of who Ashley is is Charlotte and the same with my dad. It's not like I'm the Joker.

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'

I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.'

You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.

In 'Hardflip,' you have a relationship where the father and son haven't seen each other in 18 years, but they find they're very alike: pigheaded, stubborn, passionate. It's a wonderful story of how you can't get away from how similar you and your children are.

I am completely turning into my mom. Me, trying to be stern, is her. Or when I make silly voices. My mom always uses weird voices if she's talking to a kid or a dog. I'm the same person - completely my mother.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

My parents are very similar to me.

I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.

I'm never more encouraged than to hear someone talk about how eerie it is that I move like my father.

I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.

I always thought I was more of a mommy's boy, because she was charming, talkative, a great storyteller. But as I dug back into my past, I realized I am exactly like my father on so many levels, although I never thought I inherited anything from him.

I am not really trying to act like my dad.

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you.

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.