Quotes About Independence

I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

I will do anything, and I do almost everything myself. But when there is something extra heinous to do, I have a great stunt double, Eddie Davenport, and a great stunt coordinator, Jeff Wolfe.

I learned that I can earn many things if I don't use stunts and do everything myself.

I like to do my own stunts, but sometimes you need a little bit of help.

As much as they'll let me I do my own stunts and I do all my own fighting.

For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.

It's so important for me to do my own stunts. The sense of achievement is so immense. But the studios don't want to take the risk.

I like doing my own stunts.

I like being able to do all of my own stunts. I appreciate stunt guys and what they do and, of course, the time and the effort that they put in, but for me, I'm young. You only live once, so to be able to do all your own stunts, train, become a real fighter... I feel like I can hold my own.

I don't care what people think. People are stupid.

I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.

You can't think about what other people think. You just can't. It's stupid. You've got to look inside yourself.

I am trying to be a girl who is real and has an opinion. Might say stupid things but not scared of men, and for me that's important.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

The age of 20 was all about stupid things. I did crazy things but never lost it. I was, you know, a little crazy. I once broke up with my boyfriend in London and went to an Indian guy's apartment who I didn't know and who told me he saw my aura and gave me a massage.

People always tell me the next stage of my career means moving to New York, but I never will. I don't care how that affects my career, and I think it's stupid that it would.

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.