Quotes About Independence

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

Yo La Tengo were a major inspiration for me because they're one of the first bands that I got into on my own, separate from my parents, when I was in high school. I have all their albums. That's the place we'd like be in someday.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta have your own thing going. You gotta be really strong about it, and you gotta look at the older material in an aggressive way - 'I'm gonna make this mine somehow.' You need to put your imprint on the situation that you're in.

Even 150 years of the first war of Independence was marked with a series of programs, but somehow the Jallianwala Bagh incident hasn't been given the attention it deserves.

Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.

One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

What someone else does or doesn't do has no effect on me and what I do.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

All I want to do is get me a piece of land someplace where I can say, 'This is home,' and I got nobody bothering me.

If someone doesn't want me working their club, they're not going to hear from me again. I'm not going to fight or complain about it. I'd rather go someplace else.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

You have to set somebody free for them to return

Rules are made to be broken." - Jared