Quotes About Independence

I chose to go to CAA. I think me becoming my own man is going to make it easier, honestly.

I've chosen difficult men. But then I'm sure they'd say they'd chosen a difficult woman.

I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.

I have chosen not to have children.

I believe, in America, we're a nation of people that are self-governors. This idea that only a chosen few elites have the ability to make decisions is foreign to me.

Too many women are being chosen by men that they don't choose.

When I was growing up with Chris, I was the little brother that was kind of annoying: 'Can I come?' 'Get out of here.' 'Can I play?' 'Get out of here.' So that's our relationship. I just do my own thing. I leave him alone.

The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.

I'm not Cinderella.

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

The armed citizen made America free, and the armed citizen will keep America free!

I think most women do not want to be treated as sort of a special class of citizen.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

No studio picks up the phone after seeing 'Dogtooth' and goes, like, 'We have the next superhero movie.' Though if one did, that would be an interesting studio to work with.

I would like to do an action film, and in which I am doing the action. I don't want to be a damsel in distress. I want to be a superhero. I would love to do that.

Superwoman is one of those superheroes that knows her power and is very comfortable in her power.

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

Our media provides a continuing message that for men, heroism is defined through association with control, independence, and the ability to commit violence, from superheroes to crime dramas.

I would want people to be their own superheroes, save their own days, know that nobody else is gonna do it for you. You have to pick yourself up out of your dark moment; you gotta be your own source of light, just like I was for me.

The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

In order to provide for their independence, the Constitution made judges of the superior courts immune from removal except by impeachment.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.