Quotes About Independence

I am not going to play the victim.

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don't let show business push you around.

I don't like to play the victim.

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

I don't want to be a victim.

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

My big 'don't' would be wearing something just because someone told you it looks cool. I think a lot of people fall victim to that - of doing something that's a trend, but then you can tell if they don't own it or don't like it.

When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.

You're not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your decision, and completely under your control.

I'm not a victim.

I'm a supporter of female entrepreneurs. I don't feel like a victim, and I try to not think of myself as one.

I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

I am not a victim. I do not blame anyone for the circumstances of my life.

I dont want to be a victim, nor be portrayed as one.

I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.