Quotes About Self-reliance

I've set up businesses. I've set up charities. I have actually done the work myself.

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

I am not trying to chase what other people are doing.

I ain't going to chase someone around. I ain't going to talk about someone that ain't talking about me.

I was never the kind of girl that chased anybody.

You can cheat in solitaire, but there's nothing satisfying about cheating in solitaire.

The best part of being on your own is not really having to answer to anybody. Not that when you're in a relationship you should really have to answer to somebody then, either. Just the freedom of not checking in with someone all the time is nice.

I can live without a computer. My assistant checks my e-mails.

Whatever the crowd is - cheering, booing or whatever - it's not anything I bother to think about.

The feeling, the sensation behind it is, it's exciting to cherry pick and select and be your own boss and to be in control of your own brand; however, it's a lot of work.

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.

I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.

I am a sport. And I don't have a chip on my shoulder.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

When you do what I've done - the normal Hollywood way, where you let people do things for you - and then you make certain choices where you have to learn to do it for yourself, which is how you should do it, it caused me to get way behind in stuff. I wouldn't change a thing because it's been a very important learning thing.

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

It's my life and I prefer choosing my path. I don't follow anyone else.

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

I chose my own path because that was the only way.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

I chose to go to CAA. I think me becoming my own man is going to make it easier, honestly.

I'm not Cinderella.