Quotes About Individuality

My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's

Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language.

The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

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.

My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

I have never felt any connection with my family. There is—I must say simply—something in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.

my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.

I'm not giving any guidance, OK. I mean, you know, mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right? Anyway, so he's [Sean] doing his own thing.

Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.