Robert Draper Quotes

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

Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad.

It doesn't bother me whether I am or I'm not compared to my dad. I do not feel any pressure at all from being his son.

There's a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.

My mom being raised in England, her father always wanted to pursue the arts and wanted to have a stage career in England. According to her, he never had the courage to actually pursue it full-time. I think that my grandfather's parents thought that it wasn't a formidable job to have.

Even if I aspired to be in showbiz, I felt physically inadequate being compared to my parents.

I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.

She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.

My father had a lot to do with me thinking about acting, though he never saw me act. He passed away probably - he passed away as I was doing my first play, but I just think being exposed to it and being around it. It wasn't something that I ever thought I couldn't do because I grew up around it.

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.

I guess the most difficult thing for me was living up to my mom's expectations. I was always scared that if I didn't do things in this certain way, then my mom just wouldn't think I was great. That's something that was difficult for me growing up.

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

You're always trying to impress your parents regardless of how old you are. And when they're gone, there's nobody to impress. But I think my parents would be proud of me. My father has been gone for 30 years, and by the time he passed away, I was a lawyer. I hope he would be impressed.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.

I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.

You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.