Quotes About Independence

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

We live in the United States. British settlers founded the first colony in North America. And English is our language.

I left home at 15 to go to the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Living in China, I found out that the bright new world was not for me, not for defectors. My life in North Korea had been OK; suddenly, in China, I had to feed myself and earn money. Worst of all, North Korean defectors are hunted by the government.

I don't want to be a slave to nostalgia.

I never wanted us to be an exercise in nostalgia, living in the shadow of other artists.

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.

The world is going to keep bashing me for whatever I do, and I'm going to keep not caring.

I'm not a yes man. When the UFC says, 'Jump,' I'm not saying, 'How high,' because that's not fair to me.

I'm not interested in being liked.

I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

I am not interested in anyone and will let my mother decide about my marriage.

I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.

I like people with conviction, who are in control of themselves. I'm not interested in working with a designer who hires a creative director.

I'm not interested in people being interested in me.

I don't mind playing a mom, but if I'm just somebody in someone else's love story, then I'm not interested.

You don't need to know who I'm dating. You don't need to know what I'm doing. I'm fine with everybody not knowing that.