Mary Elizabeth Donaldson Quotes

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

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

I look so much like my dad - same chin, same cheekbones, same forehead - and I play a little like him too. But I am my mother's son. I am who I am because of her.

I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.

My parents have always taught me to be myself and to follow my instincts.

I am a product of my father's work.

I learn a lot from my dad and my grandpa, but I do things in a completely different way.

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.

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've always kind of gotten my personality from my mom, and whether that's 'star quality' or whatever... a lot of her is in me.

I am not really trying to act like my dad.

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.

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

My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much.

I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.

All the athletes are individuals. This isn't a team sport. We all have our own styles, our own clothing preferences and our own way of doing things. That's the way I do things and I'm proud of it.

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 love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy. People comment, but the only person who ever told me to fix them was my mom ... I just went my own way, like daughters do.

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.

The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.