Quotes About Autonomy

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the money back at corporate headquarters. But if people want to do that, they're free to do it.

You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.

Chadaris, as far as I'm concerned, I think should be a personal choice of the women and the members of her family. I personally would not wear a chadari.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.

If I had my way, no one would ever be separated from his or her family over a personal choice that involved only his or her body.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.

I set my own personal goals; I'm not playing to satisfy fans.

It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it.

I am not answerable to what happens with my personal life.

Just like any other human being is concerned about his or her personal life, I also need to think about my personal life.

I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.

My personal life is only my business and the business of the people who are close to me.

My personal life was my personal life and no one's business.

To have a personal life is the minimum freedom you have to give to a human being.

I don't need to make an announcement about who I'm dating. It's up to me to decide when and what I want to share about my personal life, and it is up to the audience to decide how they look at it.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.