Quotes About Independence

I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

I don't believe in proving myself, ever. I'm in the school of thought where if someone is a curious person, they can find whatever they want.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.

I always wanted to have my own company. It was a psychological issue.

I think part of the way in which kids develop emotional and psychological resiliency is by having some independence.

I was going to college. But to be, like, a psychologist, wanting to help people but also just kind of not being my parents.

All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.

I enjoy not being a public company.

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.

In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye.

I don't care about being in the public eye.

I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

I've done things my own way every since I've entered public office.

The notion that one's home is one's castle and you can pull up the drawbridge is not one that people in public policy circles believe in.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

I don't miss public school.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote, or endorse things, or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

I don't have a publicist.

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

By God's grace, I'm not hungry for publicity, God has given me enough to fend for myself.