Quotes About Independence

I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.

Many Americans abhor paternalism. They think that people should be able to go their own way, even if they end up in a ditch. When they run risks, even foolish ones, it isn't anybody's business that they do.

It is foolish to compare Shahid and Ishaan. Shahid has made it on his own. So will Ishaan. He did not get a Majid Majidi film because he is Shahid Kapoor's brother.

As long as I know what I'm playing, I shouldn't concern myself with others' footage.

I respect and admire my family, but they've never expected me to walk in their footsteps.

Don't follow in my footsteps; follow your heart.

Following in my father's footsteps is not a big deal to me.

I don't want to follow in the footsteps of anybody that went before, because they didn't do what I want to do.

I try to not to worry too much about following in other's footsteps and just create my own path.

I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.

The People's Party, I am working for the people and we want to put the power back in people.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

I believe in empowering people rather than advising them and forcing them in a direction which I feel is right.

Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

I don't mind being by myself, even in a foreign country.

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

I was getting a lot of pressure to go to the States, but I never really wanted to. I saw Cronenberg forge his own path, and that made me believe that I could do that, too.

As the Independent Group, we are determined to try to forge a different style of doing politics.

People forgot about us, which was what we wanted. We could be left alone without any pressure to make music.

I hate the the word 'disempower,' because it seems kind of cliche, but I do think that we take people's ability to self-teach away by creating this idea that that someone else has to do this for you, that you have to take a course, you have to do it in some formal way.