Quotes About Independence

I spent a lot of time in my head, but not like caring about what everybody else thought, just literally in my own world.

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

Everybody loves me so much, they just want to carry me around. Sometimes I think to myself, 'When am I going to stand, because I'm being carried all day?'

It is hard that people don't just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life.

The Rykiel woman? She doesn't have time to stop time. She's too busy running. In her hands she's carrying a tote, a baby, a book, a camera.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

I have to carve my own way. Build. It takes time.

I've always had this 'carve out your own existence' attitude and I'm always encouraging other people to do this, if they can. Of course not everyone has the choice. I've been lucky.

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.

In my 20s, I was carving a space for myself in the world of entertainment.

There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

I think with animation there's a certain freedom that you're given. You don't have a thought at the back of your mind, that worry that you'll have to cut and go back to the top of the scene. You're not working with anyone else from the cast. It's just you.

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

A cat only has itself.

I've never wanted a baby. I've always wanted a cat.

That's one of my favorite Matador records: Cat Power, 'You Are Free.'

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the thing, and they'll catch up.

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

I don't want to be put in a category.

I don't like being put into a category.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.