Quotes About Autonomy

I came up different; I took a different route. I want to lead my own path.

When I was on 'EastEnders,' I still had a paper route until I was 21 and left home.

I like creating stuff and projects, but at the same time, I do like sometimes just having a routine with somebody else telling me where to go, what time to be there.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

There's only rules if you place rules on yourself.

I don't take well to rules.

I like to play by my own rules.

I don't make any rules.

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets.

I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

I don't watch TV. I don't watch anybody else's saga but my own.

I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'

I don't think we should be presentable or present ourselves for the sake of others.

A person's health is not for sale, it's not for trade and it's certainly not available for blackmail.

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

I don't expect for people to like the same things, so I don't feel a need to force people to understand who we are.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

Whether we like it or not, we don't choose Saudi Arabia's leaders. They do.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'