Quotes About Independence

I have friends who I consider my peers, who have done amazing work, particularly in the film and television space, who came up as independent artists and who have been - to be brutally honest - much more prolific than I was able to be.

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

I tell myself that if I start to listen to these people and start to let them decide how I should behave and what I should do, then this is not my life - it's theirs.

I can't let anybody tell me what I'm going to be.

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

All my life, I've had a fear of being told what to say, so I'm not telling people what to think. I'm encouraging them to say what they think.

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.

I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

Everybody was telling me I should just stand alone on my first project, and I started to see what they were saying.

I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.

My job is to do the best possible job for my country, and I wouldn't want someone else telling me what I should be doing in Canada.

I never get affected by anyone telling me anything.

Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.