Quotes About Independence

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

Oh, she didn't schlep me. I schlepped her, actually. I was the one who wanted to be an actress.

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.

It definitely took me a while to adjust to L.A. I came out knowing nobody, and I'd never lived away from home before.

I'm my own person and my own player. Not that I don't admire other players and try and do similar things.

I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn't really like being an adolescent at all.

Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

Acting was definitely a comfortable place. It didn't force me into adulthood because I was ready to be independent.

Being single has its own advantages and it's a fun thing.

There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

I remember my first night in L.A. I was sitting outside, looking out at the city and thinking, 'I don't know anyone.' I just approached it as a big adventure. I still think of it that way.

I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.

I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

You do not want cricketers who are cowed by adversity, waiting for someone to tell them what to do.

I was the only actor in my family. I wasn't given a lot of advice; I had to work it out.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

Don't take too much advice.

I don't ask other artists for too much advice.

My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

Be your own advocate.

No one is mediating aesthetic choices on an OPN album other than myself.

I don't let people affect me.