Quotes About Independence

I've learned so much between Atlantic, Slip-N-Slide and EMI to know how to control and do my own business.

One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.'

You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It's not the year I was born. I'm a little older than that. I wish it was the year I was born. It was the year one of my favorite books was written: 'Atlas Shrugged.' Ayn Rand.

There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.'

I want to be my own person. I want to make a name for myself instead of having the name attached to me.

I do my own make-up, even when I have to attend all these film events.

Girls throughout the world should be able to make decisions about their own lives. If they have the opportunity to attend school, they will become independent and strong.

I always had this attitude of, 'They don't get to tell me how I live my life.'

I don't have to have a man in my life, and I think men are attracted to that.

I've always been very much attracted to a character that's actually free.

I think the women that we dress, the women who buy our clothes, they have a certain strength. It could be about the clothes, it could be about themselves. It's just attractive.

Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

I think people feel completely stunted without an agent, but there's a lot of auditions to be had without one and a lot to be learned before you take an agent on.

When I started off my career I did each and everything on my own. Whether it was finding numbers or going for auditions it was done all alone without anyone's help.

The Australian cast of mind is not something I would want to be without - and I couldn't be without. It's not a choice.

I think my brand is just being authentic and being me. Everybody goes right, I go left.

I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'

I just don't like authority. I do like authority when I respect it.

I've never been any good with authority.

I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.

I don't run behind authority.

Some will say that I have an issue with authority, but I just like to question things.

Some authors are quite happy - and have the time - to do it all themselves, which is great.

I choose to make it my job to not automatically believe what the U.S. government says.