Quotes About Independence

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing off as "a woman's life ends when she finds the right guy".

There's no time for boys in my life right now.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.

It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.

There's a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.

Take custody of your life. Show up, do your best, and let go of the rest.

To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

I don't think anybody can really sit down and decide that their mission in life is to make people think. I think their mission in life is to leave people alone!

I still don't get why I have to eat breakfast if you don't," Josie muttered. "Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

I try to make choices for my own life. And I try to make those choices count.

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.