Quotes About Autonomy

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing. I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.

It's my future and my life and I can't make myself live the way someone else wants me to.

True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.

People don't want to be sold! People want to buy!

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now

Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong.

I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.

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.

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.

There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

I just don't want to give them my name and say, 'Do whatever you want.' I am trying to create my brand.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.

Man is free the moment he wants to be.

You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.