Renee Elise Goldsberry Quotes

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

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.

My father was an amazing man. No person is perfect, and no father-son relationship is perfect. He wanted me to live my life my way and never think about what he would have done or what he would have wanted to do.

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

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself, and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.

You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.

My father quite honestly played no role in my decision to become an actor.

Everyone is different, and each has to create his or her own path, irrespective of who their parents are.

I moved from Stockholm to London, and I didn't want to work with my parents or have them help me in any way, I think just to prove to myself that I have my own talent.

I think, a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

I mean my mother always wanted us to be individuals. She always instilled that into our brains which was incredibly painful for an adolescent to deal with.

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.

Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody's actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

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.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If you had asked me to marry you the night you first told me about your acceptance, I would have embraced Princeton as part of a larger plan that involved me. I probably would have reacted differently. I might even had said yes. Alas, you didn't ask me then. You made plans for your future without me in mind, And that's okay. But how can you now ask me to arrange my life around you?

Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I want that life." I want to make my own history.

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.