Hayden Panettiere Quotes

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.

I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

I work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do.

But at the end of the day, I'm my own man, regardless of what my little brother does or what he did.

My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to be raised differently than my brother and sister were. My parents went through the whole sixties rebellion with my brother and sister. But I didn't feel like I had to rebel because I didn't have anyone telling me I couldn't do something. I never went into that parents-as-enemies stage.

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 wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.

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.

I didn't want to work with my father. I wanted to see if I could develop my own career.

Everyone is different, and each has to create his or her own path, irrespective of who their parents are.

I grew up with brothers in real life.

Some people might think they need to venture out on their own to create their own image. I do not have any of those kind of feelings.

I find the idea that some kids go into acting because of their parents butt-clenchingly embarrassing. I've gone out of my way to prove myself as a separate being. I don't want to be seen as a subset of someone else.

I deliberately try to carry a different perception of myself as opposed to my father's. I respect my dad and his body of work, but I can't give him credit for what I am today. As a person, I give my parents full credit; career-wise, no.

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.

People say, 'Well, you're not Pau's little brother anymore.' I'm always going to be Pau's younger brother and Adria's older brother.

I am not really trying to act like my dad.

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