Ivanka Trump Quotes

I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one.

I'd be the biggest hypocrite if I said I really worked very hard for my career, because it was given to me on a silver platter. I can't take any credit.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary.

I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.

George W. Bush was born on third base and somehow got the idea that he hit a triple.

The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.

Doors opened for me because of who I am. But the downside is, there is way way too much expectation from me, much more than there would have been if I were from outside the film industry.

Of course nepotism exists, but if star kids are not good at what they do, they won't last.

I came from a privileged background, which I am entirely grateful for, but it played a part in my feeling that I couldn't complain about my own emotions.

My last name is good and bad. It's great from an opportunity standpoint. The bad news is that you're prejudged often.

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

I was pretty naive about how hard it would be to get out from under the family name. Not that I'm complaining.

We like to think that people have to work for their money.

I was always introduced as the Beatles photographer and I gave it up in the end. I was so unsure of myself. Am I good or am I just the Beatles photographer? People were not interested in what I did before. I could not stand it any more.

I grew up upper middle class.

I always have that in the back of my head - the idea that I've been spoon-fed because of where I'm from. I think that's one of the main things that drives me to work harder to show that, in reality, I haven't been handed anything.

The only privilege star kids enjoy is a good launch. That, of course, is important.

My journey is different from other star brothers, kids, or sisters. I think that is one of the main reasons that people don't question me on this. So far, the media and the audiences have not really roped me into the ambit of nepotism.

No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director's son or a star's son.

I realize I live in a bubble, and all the opportunities are there to me. And having done a number of popular TV series, I'm mildly famous in certain situations, and lots of doors open to me.

It's nice coming from Summerhill, because you don't come from having everything, and what you do get, you appreciate.

People always assume I went to public school, which I didn't, so that immediately puts me somewhere.