Quotes About Independence

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.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

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

I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll go get it. You sit here - I'll get it, I'll make it.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.

K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.

Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

I'm not scared of any opponent. I fight who I want to fight.

Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.