Georgia May Jagger Quotes

I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

In real life, my parents pretty much approved of all my boyfriends. I guess I was doing something wrong. I should have been more rebellious.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

I think my dad's rebellion is that he's super accepting - I mean, he, like, encouraged me to drop out of university. And to do acting.

I just don't fit into the box.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

You gotta understand, there are two different kinds of Asians - the kind who are good at school, obey their parents, go to college - that kind of stuff. And then you have my family - me, my brother, all of my cousins - we're just wretched people.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else.

I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

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

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

In 'The Big Chill,' those characters are in middle age, thinking, 'Oh, God, I've turned into my parents. I've failed.' And in 'Beside Still Waters,' we're showing the struggles of people who actually want to be like their parents and feel they can't live up to their heights.

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.

I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.