Quotes About Independence

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.

I tend to do things without my parents' permission.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

I can't believe people think they need permission to drive. Or permission to do anything.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

Acting is a job of permission. Someone has to give you permission to do it. But I have started to be like, 'I only want to do things that I want to do,' and writing has afforded me the luxury.

My father didn't want me to go to New York City, and I was determined to go. Learning to give myself the permission to be who I was in the world and to make my own choices was hard.

Have you watched Animal Planet? The lioness is out there hunting the zebras, the gazelles, all sorts of things, so you need to be the fierce lioness or dragon that you are. Have that inner fire. See what you want, get it, and ask nobody for permission.

I always joke about how I get excited to go to the grocery store without permission.

I was never going to be one of those women who put their career on hold, who put their hand out to their husband to ask permission. I used to think that was the worst.

That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing.

Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell.

My whole life I have sort of done my own thing. I rarely ask permission; I sometimes ask forgiveness.

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.

Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

You never know what you're getting into like some of the best experiences I've ever had have been movies that literally had a million dollar budget and everybody's eating Cheetos all day and running around without permits and trying not to get caught.

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.