Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.

I don't discount the privilege that comes with being the kid of two very great actors. All I can say is I'm very grateful that I've had their examples. And it's fun to get to share it with them.

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

People assume that because I was brought up on Rolling Stones tours, and my father is who he is, I'm some kind of rock-and-roll bad girl.

Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.

My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else.

I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

Maybe it’s that silver spoon in his [Mitt Romney’s] mouth that keeps him from seeing why the middle class doesn’t pull itself up by its bootstraps, like he did when Daddy loaned him his first million dollars.

There's no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.

There was a perception that I'd grown up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I don't want to make any mistakes. My parents have been married for 40 years. I want to stay married.

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

I hope that a lot of my mother's talents are shown in a lot of the work that I do.

I come from probably many generations of singers because my grandmother had a really incredible voice and sang in church. And my mother had a gorgeous voice and was always singing around the house.

It was hardly their own shining abilities alone that allowed a son, two grandsons, and a son-in-law of Winston Churchill to make their way into parliament.

Just knowing your dad is a professional basketball player, it just makes you feel like you're destined for.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in Beverly Hills, but I was born with a great deal of self-worth.

I think some star kids have it even harder than outsiders, because the pressure is too much.

When I first started pursuing acting professionally out of college, it was very much in my head that there would be comparisons with potentially both of my parents, and I found that pretty intimidating.

People presume that just because I am Shahid Kapoor's brother, I must have studied in an international school, gone out on foreign vacations, and had a certain kind of upbringing. But the truth is quite different, and I am very proud of where I come from.