Quotes About Independence

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house bothering the kids. But not just any old folks' home. I want the whole top floor.

I have known for some time that I can meet any man I want but that does not mean that I want to meet anyone. I certainly don't like being forced into situations.

You have to sleep sometime. (Xypher) So do you. (Julian) Down, boys, down. Please, I just want to be free before I get testosterone poisoning. (Simone)

I'm such an independent person, I always want to do everything myself.

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.

I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.

It's up to me to create the life I want.

I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms.

Brexit is the people of Britain who are fed up with the European Union dominating their lives, and they want accountability.

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up.

The greatest joy is my lifestyle, where me and my husband and our kids who go to internet school so they have the freedom to travel with me are able to do what we want, when we want, where we want.

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they want.

I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.

I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.