Quotes About Self-reliance

Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door.

None but himself can be his parallel.

Boxing has parallels with stand-up, because you're on your own. If a boxer gets knocked out in the first round, it's humiliating.

Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

I am no parasite.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

I am not a team player, including my inadequacies as a parent.

You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you're the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.

I didn't go to parties or anything like that.

Even when I was in Dubai, I used to host small birthday parties, events, and lots more to make money of my own to fulfil my wish to become an actor. I didn't take any money from my parents to fulfil my dream.

I moved on from the whole 'Playboy' thing five years ago and really never looked back. I'm not one of those girls who goes back to all the parties and things.

I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time.

I think the idea of participating in your own health care and being responsible to the extent you can be of your own health, it seems to me a lot like self-reliance and individual responsibility. This cuts through the partisan divide.

I was born to sell it as a kid. I think it's partially innate, and partly it's because my parents were always very clear: if I needed anything that wasn't a necessity, I was going to have to save my money and buy it myself. That meant not only did I have to buy basketball shoes, but I had to figure out how to pay for college as well.

I never wanted to get married. I never thought that was in my cards. I always thought I was just going to be an independent woman my entire life. Hopefully having a partner but never getting married.

I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!

I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

I've learned that I need to appreciate time by myself and that I don't need a partner to complete me.

Showrunning is an arrogant job. You have to be arrogant and hold yourself strong in order for people to hear you. Confidence partners with arrogance. The only person you have to trust is yourself. The only instinct you can trust is your own.

'Sweetback' represented an economic tour de force because I had no partners; I own it.

I was a loner; I was never the crazy party girl.

If you start to pass blame or responsibility on to others, that's when I'm going to start to get really angry.