Lorna Luft Quotes

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

I had a beautiful mother and a famous father, and I didn't know where I fit in.

I really hate it when people ask me who my icons are. When your parents are Bianca and Mick, you don't really need any more icons in your life.

Both my parents were huge stars. I would never have attempted to become as big of stars as they were because they lived in a different era.

It doesn't bother me whether I am or I'm not compared to my dad. I do not feel any pressure at all from being his son.

It's easy to say that he/she is a star kid and has had it easy in Bollywood, but being a star kid is the real pressure. You have to undergo a lot of pressure, as you are being constantly compared to your parents.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.

Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.

My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad.

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

Sometimes I feel so separated, you know? The Kardashians over here, the Jenners over here, little me in the middle. We've got to keep the family going.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.