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 is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
People always have to have a reference - I think I'll always be in the shadow of my parents.
