Jerome Boateng Quotes

I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

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.

From a young age, I wanted to differentiate myself from my older siblings.

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 am not really trying to act like my dad.

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

I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! My brothers are quite a bit older - 10 years and 5 years - so it was a challenge, but I have some of the most amazing memories with my big brothers.

You lie when you're a teenager, I think, because your parents are treating you like you're younger and you - in your mind - think that you're so much older. You make up all of these lies because you think it's what you should do.

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You've got to go your own way, and that's what I did.

I've heard, 'You're not your father.' Well, you're right. I'm not. We've had two different careers.

I grew up pretty fast because I had a lot of older brothers and sisters.

I enjoyed being a teenager.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own.

I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.

My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.

When I was younger it was - you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.