Quotes About Independence

I don't like to deal with studios.

In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

I never really learnt from anyone. I just spent a lot of time at home, knocking things out. It has been interesting going into proper studios, working with people who know everything. But I find it doesn't hinder me.

We don't over-manage projects like the studios do.

There's no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I'll write my own scripts in my own time.

I made my own contacts and I recorded in different studios, and it was something that I did by myself without the assistance and help with my family at first.

On the basis of research in several disciplines, including the study of how human capacities are represented in the brain, I developed the idea that each of us has a number of relatively independent mental faculties, which can be termed our 'multiple intelligences.'

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

It was the most exciting thing to leave secondary school and go to college, to have that freedom to study whatever I wanted.

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

I started running when I was 21 years old and studying in China.

When I was studying in Canada, we were so free.

I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.

I thought that studying the performing arts and becoming an actress would give me a reason to leave home at a younger age.

As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

It's why I started music, to have my own stuff happening - something that I can say is mine, something that I have ownership of.

I do the functional stuff. I go to the gym and do all these things by myself. I don't have a routine. I like to do new stuff all the times.

I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.

When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a stunning actress. She came out of her shell. She was herself again: this very independent, funny, intellectual lady - and was able to perform again, which was her life before meeting my father squashed it out.

For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

On 'Angel' I got to work a lot with Mike Massa, who was David Boreanaz' stunt double, and Mike would let me do most of my stuff by myself. I did almost all my fight scenes by myself.

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.