Quotes About Autonomy

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

I tend to do things without my parents' permission.

I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy.

I can't believe people think they need permission to drive. Or permission to do anything.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

My father didn't want me to go to New York City, and I was determined to go. Learning to give myself the permission to be who I was in the world and to make my own choices was hard.

I always joke about how I get excited to go to the grocery store without permission.

I was never going to be one of those women who put their career on hold, who put their hand out to their husband to ask permission. I used to think that was the worst.

Labels can be really helpful when we have the autonomy to label ourselves. But when other people label us without our permission, that's when it becomes dangerous.

Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell.

My whole life I have sort of done my own thing. I rarely ask permission; I sometimes ask forgiveness.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

What's perplexing to me is that I never think it's anybody's business to know my business.

Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

And yet," said he, "how can a man take care of his own horse or furbish up his spear and helmet, if he is unaccustomed to using his hands on his own dear person? Know ye not," said he, "that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?

The moral is to not set yourself goals which don't leave you any freedom to maneuver.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.