Quotes About Self-reliance

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

I can't save the world, but if I can share some ideas, people might be able to save themselves.

I am not a savior.

I don't care what anyone says.

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

Doing a scene by yourself is scarier - you know you don't have other people to fall back on.

If there is an action scene, I want to do everything myself.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you're on your own.

I can't live my life according to anyone else's schedule.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

I could start a fire from scratch.

If I lead my life according to someone else, I've screwed my life up.

I always write the script by myself.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

If I lived my life according to what Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh said about me, I would just stay in bed all day.

I was only 26 when I started my career. Those days I only wanted to work. When my films did not work, I didn't know what to do. But I never went to anyone for work. Work came in search of me.

I'm not running for anything but my own seat.

I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.

I am really secure and I have grown up that way.

I feel pretty secure about who I am.

I'm very secure in my life.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.