Esme Creed-Miles Quotes

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

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.

When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.

My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.

I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.

Great as my dad was - I would never have gotten my first job announcing if I didn't have the last name Buck - it's my mom, Carole, who has made the biggest difference. She was on Broadway back in the 1960s. She understands entertainment, has incredible instincts.

When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

I am a product of my father's work.

I'm like one of those dudes who organically have talent.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

I always tell my dad he was training me to be a pro before he even knew it.

My Dad has given me a lot of advice, but this advice comes especially from the attitude point of view. He's never told me how to drive a car, how to do a corner, nothing like that. He believe this comes from the talent. You are born with it or you are not born with it.

People think it comes easy to us because we are from a family full of musicians, but I feel it's all about talent.

To any child, the first occupations that are presented to you are your parents'. I was appealed to my dad's occupation from the get-go.

My dad discouraged me and my older sister watching too much TV. I don't want to portray them as crazy hippies, but I definitely feel like I was influenced by their creativity. But did I want to have an acting career myself? I didn't think so. I think my goal really was to direct. I really wanted to make stories in that capacity.

It is not unusual for children to follow the paths cut by their parents. You frequently see the children of doctors enter medicine, military members' children enlist. In my family, we witnessed different forms of public and community service.

As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.