Quotes About Self-reliance

I really don't need anyone to come to Mississippi to generate a vote for me.

I'm from Kansas City, Missouri. No one has to give a damn about my story.

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

We always did our own mixing.

Going forward, I have four different ways of approaching what I want to do - I can generate my own material by writing. I can produce, direct, act, or do a combination of these things, mixing it up.

I am not a role model for anyone.

I don't think of myself as a role model.

What drew me to modeling was this idea of being independent.

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

I don't know why modeling worked for me, because I'm short. But I liked it because it let me buy my own furniture.

That year of modeling, I grew up a lot - I was alone in New York and just grinding and making it work, and I feel it kind of prepared me for the responsibilities of being an actor alone in L.A. and taking care of yourself.

I've never been interested in a career in modelling, I was interested in my independence. When I was in school, modelling was what I needed to reach independence without having to leave.

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.

I'm kind of tired of chasing people, calling out everybody because I always do that. All I can do right now is be the guy to beat everybody else, so there's no more people that they can go and try to run and make fights and situations happen for them that we're allowing.

If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting around to be hired.

I think being independent gives you a different confidence about yourself. It gives you more power, especially in certain relationships.

I firmly believe in individual liberty more than anything else. And that you have to live the life you want for yourself.

My dad would leave at 4 or 5 in the morning and then I wouldn't see him until evening. The conversations we used to have, he would tell me, 'A man takes care of his home first. A man handles his responsibility. He doesn't ask another man for anything.'

I have never had another job and I don't have a mortgage.

I was always free because I felt free. It's very important to be free inside. The most important thing is to feel free.

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

The most important thing for me is to have as much control over what's going on in front of me as I possibly can, so because of that, I don't play to a click track, and I don't have anything on the grid. Everything is triggered by me. Everything is played by me. Everything is within my control.