Quotes About Self-reliance

I'm not Drake's sidekick.

I've never had much and I've never needed much. If I had only two bucks in my pocket, I knew I could spend it because I could always do another show of some kind, even on a sidewalk.

For me, I never want anyone outside of my immediate family and outside of me to have the power to alter the way that I walk, talk, shop, or date. When you start feeding off of that outside acceptance and accolades, you lose sight of what's actually real. Once you get there, it's kind of hard to double back.

I don't have to do films to pay my bills, nor am I insecure to think that out of sight is out of mind.

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

This clutching hold of the E.U. is a sign of a lack of national self-confidence - which is not healthy.

We were happy with funding 'Rage' on our own nickel for years. We intended to do the same with 'Doom 4'. We had offers early on for 'Rage'. People offered us X million dollars. But we carried the risk, and when we finally signed a deal, it was X plus $10 million.

Doing stuff on my own terms and making a record without being signed to a label - I credit that all to my commercial work.

My characters are often without a significant parental figure.

I don't think I need a significant other to be happy because I always like to find that for myself, but I think that it makes me a lot happier when I'm sharing my life with somebody.

What I am signing and what I'm not, I do not discuss with either of my parents. I decide.

I remember Kenny Anderson. He's got these huge stacks of Fed Ex envelopes. They were super-packed and he'd open it up and it would be all checks. He was always signing his own checks. He would always call me Kid.' He'd say, Kid, always remember to sign your own checks. Don't allow anybody to sign your checks.'

I came from a working class family. We lived in a prefab. We had nothing, but we had everything. I was out of the house at 12 to live with my grandmother, who was on her own, and I was expected to be the man about the house. At 15, I was living in digs in London after signing for Tottenham.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

I've heard it said that I'm silencing the critics so many times but it's not that: I don't have to prove myself to anyone.

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

Italy no longer wants to be a servant to silly rules.

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

I did not find living alone difficult. In fact, it was such a liberating feeling because simple things like ironing my clothes, doing laundry, making my bed made me feel independent and gave me the sense of accomplishment that I can do it myself.

Casting yourself as a victim is the antithesis of doing your work. Don't do it. If you're doing it, stop.

The professional cannot allow the actions of others to define his reality.

From that day, I vowed never to squander a moment's care over the good opinion of others. May they rot in hell. You have heard of my abstemiousness in matters of food and sex. Here is why: I punished myself. If I caught my thoughts straying to another's opinion of me, I sent myself to bed without supper. As for women, I likewise permitted myself none. I missed no few meals, and no small pleasure, before I brought this vice under control.

Rooster was a bad slave. He had no use for anyone, not even the gods. Not that he was angry at the gods, like some I'd met. He just dismissed them entirely. There were no gods, and that was that.