Quotes About Autonomy

I don't depend on fighting or the UFC to live my life.

There are always crucial, decisive players in every side who make the difference and do not necessarily depend on others.

Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

To me, DIY means minimizing dependency on what others make for me.

If I find the person that I love, it is because I love them, not because I will be dependent on them.

I have always told my daughters not to be dependent on anyone in any capacity.

Whenever you make someone dependent on your money... It's this capitalist idea that I think has made America into a place where it's hard to breathe as an individual sometimes.

I don't like being dependent on other people.

I'm not ever going to be dependent on someone else for a job.

Today's women are not dependent, and I think it's the biggest sense of freedom.

I don't like anything with too much dependency. Children are very dependent, which is probably why we never had them.

I think sometimes as an actor your career and life are kind of dependent on other people's decisions, what other people tell you, what time other people tell you to get up in the morning, what lines people tell you to say.

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

There's no better way to be than depending on yourself.

I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

I despise places where you have to have an assigned seat. Makes me feel like I'm at the airport.

I make it a point to speak to the directors and tell them why I don't want to do a particular role or film. If, despite that, they hold it against me, I cannot help it. I cannot do things that I don't want to just to please someone else.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

The only opinion that really affects me is my own opinion of myself because I determine the way I am, not anyone else.