Quotes About Self-reliance

I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.

I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what I wanted to do. I didn't have, you know, a trust fund or parents that could help out.

Nobody likes being broke. As somebody who's had to live out of a 1982 Datsun, trust me. I know. I also understand that the first step to improve your situation is to fix the problem that landed you there in the first place.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

I'm not asking the public to trust me; I'm asking the public to trust themselves.

Trust me, never devote 100 per cent of your time and space to a man.

Everything that we know in the business we've had to learn from mistakes. No one sat us down and taught us or even said, 'Go pick up this book and learn for yourself.' We trusted people.

I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.

When truth is on your side, you don't need support.

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

The truth is that I don't really care what everyone thinks.

No one's ever really given me any style advice. I wear what I want, and it doesn't matter what other people think.

Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.

A #GIRLBOSS is in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it.

There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

Be yourself, find out what you love, find out what you really want to do, and go do it. And don't depend on people who don't have your best interests at heart.

When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

If people don't want to be helped, leave them alone.

I don't compromise. I only do the stuff I want to do.