Quotes About Autonomy

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

If you hire great people, and they're all self-motivated, then you can get by without a lot of structure.

I don't want to become a director for hire.

If you hire a coach, I believe you should let them do their job.

What you find with really good directors is that they kind of leave you alone. They've hired you because they know the kind of work you do and the sense of how you'd approach it. So usually, they'll just stand back and maybe give you a nudge once in a while in terms of something specific they might want in a particular scene.

You can't supervise your own history.

I assume people know how to hit the unfollow.

I've always been my own hitting coach.

I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'

No one's going to hold your hand in the boxing business. And the people who do end up ripping you off.

I'm much happier on my own. Being a member of The Corre, for example, I was obviously better than all three of those guys. However, I made the mistake of holding them as equals. No more.

I don't work with anyone. I have no editors. I have no directors. There's no one even holding the camera or anything. It's just me in my apartment.

If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need it.

Some may want to be a homemaker and some want to follow other careers and they should be allowed. If we want to be different we should be different and we should be allowed to be different.

The bicycle freed 19th-century women from their homes and from their dependence on men. I hope that in Saudi Arabia, the car will do the same.

I never had to run home and help anybody with their homework.

Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'

I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.

I was just hoping to have the freedom to do my work.

I'm hoping I can get in a position where I'm self-supporting from my own work.

I don't want to be in boardrooms talking about hiring hairdressers and minivans. I'm not good at it, and I don't like to hire and fire people. I hate that. It's horrible.

My big thing is I think women should birth their babies, as long as they're healthy and their doctor says it's OK, however they want, whether that means in the hospital with no drugs, at home with an epidural, elective C-section, whatever.

Knowing and being secure in yourself keeps you from being held hostage by the approval of others.

Ain't nobody gon' tell me how to raise mine. I'm a fight to keep a traditional household. That's just me.