Quotes About Autonomy

I love the idea of creators having leverage and control.

People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

You know how it be sometimes: everybody bosses, and they got their own lane going on, they got their own crew, they got their own businesses. And sometimes, you just don't link with people.

I have played cricket on my own terms.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

I really don't care to be criticized. I stay in my lane and do me.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

I'm not reading reviews and critics. I don't care. I guess I'm still a little on my own planet.

It had never crossed my mind that a man could think he had the right to stop me from being who I was.

I was never part of the crowd.

I will always do what I want to do and I won't go with the crowd.

We want to decide how we control our borders, our money, our economy, our currency.

Customers have access to information that gives them much more control over their lives.

I'm not cynical, but I don't really want to have a boyfriend or husband again.

How can another man call another man boss? That's like calling another man 'Daddy.'

I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine.

I'll go my way by myself, love is only a dance.

I'm fully aware, fully on, and fully kind of designing everything that goes on with me. Anything that's happening is definitely on my table.

My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.

I've done everything from stocking shelves at a natural food co-op, to baking bagels at Brueggers and bussing tables. Then I realized that jobs suck, but if you could get up at 6 A.M. and bake your own breakfast, that is very satisfying.

I don't run anybody else's race. When the gun goes off, I must evaluate with my own body and see. Then, as the race develops, I run accordingly. So you can say that I do not have a set tactic for any race.