Quotes About Independence

I'm all about doing things myself because I find it hard to trust other people. Not trust, but I know exactly what I want to do, and I know exactly how it's supposed to look.

Once I make a decision, it's hard for me to listen to anybody else's opinion. I make a choice, and I'm like, 'This is it. I've thought long and hard about this, and this is exactly what needs to happen.'

It doesn't matter what people think about me on screen. I will take up and do role which excite me and are interesting.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

I didn't listen to executives.

I don't need the gym for exercising, I can do it on my own.

One man is quite enough for me, I'd find three exhausting!

I am not in exile.

Golshifteh Farahani

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.

I can't do anything about what other people expect me to do.

I don't like expectations.

If you don't like something, change it. My parents expected me to stay in my office job as an administrator at the Co-op because I'm disabled, but I said no and changed my whole life.

The advice I'd give to my younger self? Stay in your own lane, maybe.

Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.

I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.

I'd never worked for anyone else until I got to the NFL, and this will be my last time working for someone else.

I looked after my children, I looked after my husband but there was no one to look after me. I am sure no other woman would have lasted in my situation for too long. But I held onto Mazhar.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

If someone had told me age 14 to start making serious decisions about my career, I'd have laughed!

For me, being successful meant not having to do my laundry at a laundromat and not having a second job.