Ari Fleischer Quotes

When I die there is nobody to take my place.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

I succeed him. No one can replace him.

We all leave unfinished work; we cannot complete it; those who come after us take it up and conform it to their will

I am Thomas Muller, and I want to be like me.

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.

Success is not success without a successor.

If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don't because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don't wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that's when your spark is lost.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

I find it so ironic that all you do, for the earliest part of your life, is try to be like everybody else. And then you turn 30, and you realize all you want to do is distinguish yourself in some way.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work.

Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.