Robert Rinder Quotes

My parents are super excited that they've produced an Olympian. I don't think they ever would have imagined this would happen in a million years, so I hope I represent not only Team U.S.A., but the Japanese-American culture and my family as well.

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.

My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.

I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.

It took years and a lot of diligence on my part. But I've formed my own thing, and now I get people who are surprised to find out he's my dad. I dreamed that would happen, and it has: I'm no longer introduced to people as Brian Williams' daughter.

When you're actually talented, and you have something to offer, people start to look at you for you as opposed to who you're the offspring of. I feel like a lot of actors, artists, or musicians who come from famous fathers or mothers all deal with the same thing.

Koreans are ambitious, man. It means a lot to my parents that I do the work that I do and it has the visibility.

My greatest production is my children. Then, to see my grandbabies is the gravy.

I always knew if I had some success that I'd no longer be thought of as Dick Van Dyke's brother.

I always wanted to, to the smallest detail, make my parents proud.

Every young player in England wants to do well and just wants to help their families, be someone that their family can be remembered for.

I want to make my family proud as much as possible.

My grandparents and my aunts tell me that I need to make a name for myself like my mother. Their thoughts really motivate me.

Making my family, friends, and close peers proud of me is the most important thing.

I didn't want to write a book as Stephen King's son, because all I did was get born, and that's not much of an accomplishment. If that was the reason my book was published, it wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on. I wanted to do my own thing.

When I worked as music associate, I have observed my parents and grandparents waiting to see my name on the screen. But, it wouldn't be there.

It's beyond my wildest dreams to come out, represent my family, my father and the music of Led Zeppelin.

My parents were never into films, but I hope to make them proud with my work some day. In any case, in Bollywood, your surname matters only till your first, second, or third film at most. Beyond that, you are on your own.

I want my kids to be proud of me.

Our family story here is one that we're proud of, and that is that, as the ninth of 10 kids in our family, I was the first who, right out of high school, was able to go to four-year college... it was a big moment in our family's life.