Frances Bean Cobain Quotes

I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

I'm a different person who's not my father or my mother. I want to be treated differently from them. I am myself, Twinkle Khanna. I am proud of being the daughter of such illustrious parents, but I would not like to be compared with them time and again.

Phil is my father. He's a part of who I am. But I don't want to be defined by that.

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.

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

Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.

Let's be honest: the label of model-daughter-of-celebrity mother is... you know, I don't want to have that label. It's not who I am. It's not my values to go off someone else's name and to be pigeonholed as that. So in a way, that has really pushed me to be more independent.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

I find the idea that some kids go into acting because of their parents butt-clenchingly embarrassing. I've gone out of my way to prove myself as a separate being. I don't want to be seen as a subset of someone else.

I've always wanted to be my own person. Even when I was 'Noah who rode horses,' I wanted to be Noah Cyrus, not anyone else or a family member.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

I think, a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

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.

You can survive without a label... matter a fact, you're better off without one!

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

I want an identity outside of my work.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.