Quotes About Self-reliance

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

I haven't asked for any contributions, and I try to do things without using money - it feels more real and honest.

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

I wasn't going to let anything control me.

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

I don't really like being controlled by anyone.

I don't want anyone controlling me.

I like to have control over what I'm doing, and that no one else is controlling me.

I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.

When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.

Nobody controls me but me.

If I am comfortable doing work in a certain way, then I will do it my way with conviction.

I've always made my own decisions and selected a script on my own conviction.

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

No one will ever convince me that I wasn't the best man for a goal if we needed one.

It is easier to produce a film on your own than convincing another person to come on board.

I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew... carpentry.

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

Being your own woman, not cookie cutter - that is the greatest luxury!

By the time my brother was 8, he was cooking breakfast and dinner for us. And I was 5.

I had my own mind made up in that I was going to do my own thing. I wasn't going to copy from this guy or that guy.

I am too big to copy anyone.

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.