Quotes About Independence

Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

I'm a man without a corporation.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

I'm a big believer in being an entrepreneur. It's easy for me to say because I work for myself and I am someone who likes that process. You have control over your destiny.

I can't imagine ever going back to working with somebody else.

I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive

I don't do any corporate work.

I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.