Priyanka Chopra Quotes

I didn't want to play the wife of some guy my dad's age.

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

I didn't wait around for my parents' opinion about my venture out into contemporary music.

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.

Our family makes us who we are, defines us totally. When you go to a therapist or have analysis, whatever reason you go in for, they will always bring you back to your family. We're strong or weak according to what family we have. You might have left them long ago, might not even talk to them, but something lingers; we have no choice.

My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!

No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.

You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.

I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.

I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time.

I'm obsessed with my parents.

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've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents.

The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.

I didn't listen to any of my dad's scores.

Phil is my father. He's a part of who I am. But I don't want to be defined by that.

Mother, sister, daughter, wife, cousins - they are a part of your everyday life. You interact with them, communicate, altercate and that they would have an influence on your everyday life is obvious.

Everyone has a family, even if they're at war or fallen apart. It's the closest initial bond, and there's a sort of primal element to that. Your primary relationships are formed out of family.

Coming from Akkineni family, I could say I was drawn into cinema, but nobody forced me to become an actor.

I never argued with my father, and it so happened that, unfortunately, the same kind of relationship passed on with me and Ranbir.

I am not really trying to act like my dad.

My parents have been a great strength to me. They never forced me into anything, and I have the final say.