Willow Smith Quotes

I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.

Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.

I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

I really hate it when people ask me who my icons are. When your parents are Bianca and Mick, you don't really need any more icons in your life.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.

It's funny because my mom is not a singer at all, nor is my father. But I definitely get more of my father's tone.

I was always interested in storytelling, particularly in theater and film. I liked creative things. My mom and dad are wonderful people, but both are tone deaf, so I don't know where the gene came from.

I'm the seventh child among eight siblings and have always had a gift for art.

I don't come from a creative background. I don't know anyone in my family who is a musician or actor or singer. It's a lot of teachers, lawyers. Professional stuff like that.

I think I took after my parents. Using music as one of my main ways of expression just felt natural.

The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.

I am so much like my mother. When we're in a room together everybody always comments on how spooky it is. I would say I get most of the musicality from my mum - and my dad, but I think my dad is the poet, you know.

My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

Family relationships are just so fascinating - how they shape you as a person, how you can wound each other, how you're imprinted in a way by your family and the conditions under which you grow up.

My father filmed me all the time as a kid, and that's how I was first exposed to a camera.

My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in ways I'm still discovering!

My mother was a writer. She acted in one film before she decided that Bollywood wasn't good enough for her. My two sisters and I probably learned from her how to get under other people's skin. In contrast, my father was a simple man despite his success at business. He was a people person, and I think that's what led him to join politics.

Along with being around the 'Roseanne' stuff, I've been following my mom and my dad back to Steppenwolf.

I think I realized my parents' relationship was special when I had my first girlfriend, and she came from a broken marriage. I watched how much closeness there was between her and her mom, and also how much bickering.

My father and mother were both doctors, yes.

My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.

My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year old.