Charles Perrault Quotes

My son is becoming me - just a silly, silly prankster guy.

I've said it before - and I'll say it again: it always seems to me that we come to know our same-sex parents through the bodily and the involuntary; through a kind of fossicking of our own physical strata. As we come to resemble our fathers, so we re-encounter the individual who reared us.

I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit.

I'm never more encouraged than to hear someone talk about how eerie it is that I move like my father.

I have my mother's nose and my father's bone structure, which I've passed on to my children. My eldest daughter and my mother, when she was young, could be sisters.

I have my mother's heart and father's face.

Call it a coincidence, but my mother used to feel that I bear some resemblance to Poonam Dhillon.

My mom and I have the exact same mannerisms - the way we talk and the gestures that we made.

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'

I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother's a worrier, and I'm a worrier. Both were very good with numbers and mathematics, so I kind of got that from both of them.

When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes - I call them chocolate eyes - I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn't.

I look a lot like my father and his mother.

It's a funny thing when you know someone and you meet their siblings - you get so much a sense of who they are because when you can recognize similar traits in the family, you understand exactly why they are the way they are.

I was 65 in May, and when I have just shaved, I see my father. I realise that I now have the same facial idiosyncrasies he had: little twitches here and there, mouth and nose movements, even the way he would tilt his head.

For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had.

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

I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.'

Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

My parents are very similar to me.

I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.

I am the younger version of my father. I try to be as normal as I can.

I look like my mother but behave like my father.