Quotes About Independence

I feel that I have my own personality and I don't want to be typed as anyone else.

It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.

I just felt like I didn't have to go back to football. Anytime I don't have to hit somebody, I'm all for it.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

I have a nice apartment now that's all taken care of. I make my bed every day.

I'm on my own now. I have my own apartment.

I will never apologize for having a life.

I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn't apologize for it. Katharine Hepburn? She was ahead of her time.

I love women who don't apologize.

I'm always just gonna do whatever I want. I don't feel any pressure to appeal to anyone in particular.

Being on your own sometimes is appealing.

I do things my way. I don't do things to make people happy or appease them.

You can't be around people who appease you all the time.

I enjoyed those last eight to 12 independent bookings, just took them and appreciated them for what they were.

I don't need approval from people who don't know me.

You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things.

I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.

I don't seek approval from anyone else.

I don't need to be validated by anybody else; I don't need to be accepted or approved of for my happiness.

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?

A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.

Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

I've been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me.