Quotes About Independence

I became my own boss once I entered showbusiness and started paying my own taxes.

I've never liked bosses telling me what to do.

Seeking to ban things is as bossy as you can get.

Both my parents worked when I was growing up.

It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.

There's always going to be someone somewhere who doesn't agree with my parents' opinion of me. It can't bother you.

I write what I like. I don't bother what people think about it.

Fighting away from home doesn't bother me.

At 10 o'clock every night, I take my dogs for a walk. And sometimes people do see me on the road. I actually don't bother a lot about what people think about what I am doing.

I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.

I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.

People talk about players who should get more attention, but things like that have never bothered me. If I just play my game, walk out the back door without anybody seeing me, I'm fine with that.

I started at the bottom. Nobody has given me anything.

I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.

I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I didn't give up until about ten days. I don't think I really told my father. I really didn't like my father knowing my things were not successful.

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

If you need to be bound to someone, then it's important to be married. If you are independent, then it's important to not be married.

I didn't have boundaries when I was growing up. I knew the difference between right and wrong, and all the things a kid needs to know, but nobody ever said to me, 'You can't do that, because that's not what girls are supposed to do. That's more of a boy thing.'

People don't follow me around, and they don't stop me in a way where it's excessive or invasive. It's always respectful. If it's not, I set my boundaries, and I walk away. That's just what you kind of have to do.

Boundaries? What are those?

Scrambling, when no one's around, getting down, getting out of bounds, taking a glancing blow, those are all fine. You can do that all day long.

I'm not going to bow down to anybody, not going to back away from anybody.

I'm a future king, why would I bow down?