I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.
I always knew if I had some success that I'd no longer be thought of as Dick Van Dyke's brother.
When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ass I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about.
I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].
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.
There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
People always have to have a reference - I think I'll always be in the shadow of my parents.
