Tali Lennox Quotes

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

David Cassidy is my father, yes... But for me, it was always really important with acting to stay in class, study it, and earn it on my own. My dad didn't help me.

The more successful sons and daughters know when to lean on their parents - and when to go their own way. George W. Bush helped run his father's presidential campaigns in 1988 and 1992. But in his winning campaign for governor of Texas, he never mentioned his father's name in any of his campaign commercials.

I didn't want to work with my father. I wanted to see if I could develop my own career.

My family doesn't interfere in my professional decisions at all.

I work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do.

My father said, 'How many days can I promote your film? You need to get your own recognition and your own identity. I can't be there always. So do it yourself.' So now I work on promotion, and he steps in to help just before the release.

My career choices aren't based on the popularity of my character; I have never intended to capitalise on my fan base.

But at the end of the day, I'm my own man, regardless of what my little brother does or what he did.

I more or less said I was going to try to make an existence off my daddy's royalties or I'm going to make it on my own. Daddy is a legend and he don't need me to keep him alive.

I've never been interested in a career in modelling, I was interested in my independence. When I was in school, modelling was what I needed to reach independence without having to leave.

I ain't on no major. Everything independent. Either way it goes, I am doing me, and I am doing Freddie Gibbs.

What drew me to modeling was this idea of being independent.

As her mother, I am always there, but Alia knows what she wants both professionally and personally.

I don't have a strategy. I am my own person. So if people disagree with the opinion of my father and want to dislike me because I'm his daughter, then I'm probably not going to be able to discourage them from that.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.

I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.

You need to be your own individual.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.

I want an identity outside of my work.