"I would never have done what I’d done if I’d considered my father as somebody I wanted to please." ― Robert Mapplethorpe Topic(s): Dad More From Robert Mapplethorpe "My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can’t be." "I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame." "People don’t have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography." More In Dad "Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you."― Rupert Everett "The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion."― Ulrich Beck "My dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years."― Adrien Brody