Michael Beschloss Quotes

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.

It is the '94 race which in many ways allowed Ted Kennedy to become his own man rather than the 'third brother.' He had to reach down and win it on his own.

David Cassidy is my father, yes... But for me, it was always really important with acting to stay in class, study it, and earn it on my own. My dad didn't help me.

My father did not do a film for me or launched me, he wanted us to do things on our own.

My father said, 'How many days can I promote your film? You need to get your own recognition and your own identity. I can't be there always. So do it yourself.' So now I work on promotion, and he steps in to help just before the release.

My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.

You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive.

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.

My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.

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

My family doesn't interfere in my professional decisions at all.

Since the age of 12, I was on my own. Everything I do, I get my parents' support.

If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.

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

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.

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

I don't have a strategy. I am my own person. So if people disagree with the opinion of my father and want to dislike me because I'm his daughter, then I'm probably not going to be able to discourage them from that.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

You need to be your own individual.

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

People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.

I want an identity outside of my work.

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.