Quotes About Independence

I do like my own space. I like to just block the noise out after a while.

I like the idea of marriage, but I think I'm a nomad.

I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'

I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.

I have no boyfriend. No time. None send me over the moon, so I just kind of do my thing.

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

I actually run a nonprofit that's all about giving people opportunities to be their own heroes and do their own work.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

I want to change the game and break through the nonsense without any Establishment help.

I grew up above a video store. My dad had an account with them and... he was very busy and had his own life. So I just would watch movies nonstop.

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn't know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.

If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I'm not the norm; I'm not deluded.

Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put my education to good use.

I'm a normal woman, a normal person, and I just want to drive.

Normally, I never listen to the people who speak about me.

When you're young, no one cares who your parents are, although Mum would arrive to pick me up in her full hair and make-up and fur, and I used to say, 'Can't you just dress normally, like all the other mums?' I wanted her to blend in more, but I've always been really proud of Mum - as proud as she is of me.

I don't like it if I am being held like a baby. If someone holds me normally, and I'm not being coddled, I feel much more comfortable.

I normally don't concern myself with, 'Will audiences like me or like my character?'

I didn't care about anyone or listen to nobody, only my father or mother. I would fight my coaches and say: 'Who are you to scream or shout at me? Are you my dad? Talk to me normally.'

Freedom means everything to me. It is the most essential right that every person deserves. Most people take it for granted, but not North Koreans.