Quote by Lisa Marie Presley

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's ev

Summary

The person who said this quote is expressing their frustration and need for individuality. They feel misunderstood and pressured by others to live up to the legacy of their famous parent, often being compared to them. They clarify that they are not attempting to emulate their parent's success but instead trying to establish their own unique identity and find their own path in life. The quote highlights their desire to break free from preconceived notions and expectations and be recognized for their own achievements and distinctiveness.

Topics

By Lisa Marie Presley

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

LouisFerdinand Celine

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

Juliette Binoche

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, a

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.

No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a schoo

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Charles Caleb Colton

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is crit

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might. 299

Men Equality Rights Doubt

Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more po

Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has cast up in my time -- this art by which even the poor can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.

Jane Welsh Carlyle, in The Colle

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from b

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your fri

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

Love Friendship Betrayal

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I think about my work every minute of the day.