Quotes About Autonomy

My parents encourage me to save, but I do buy the odd thing that I wouldn't tell them about.

You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children, you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be, and you let them go.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.

I'm never going to sub-contract out jobs for offense and defense. I'm always going to hire people I believe in - and are going to do things our way, that are going to believe in process, that are going to be part of a program.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

I don't want to do every independent film offered to me.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

I'm quite happy to perform my official duties. But on the other hand, I've always wanted to be independent and to have my own career.

As a foreign company and offshore entity we will not be obliged to comply with the rules of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and countries like that.

Learning to live with not meeting other people's expectations has been extremely freeing and is the only gift I wish to pass on to any future offspring.

I learned early on - I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.

Don't change who you are and it's okay to say no.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

I was running the show on 'United States of Tara' and 'How To Make It In America' where I could say, 'Okay, I'm in charge of everything now.' But it still wasn't my show.

I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

Everything is always on the table. I think it's one of the things that's made 'Arrow' special. But we also all collectively feel like 'The Flash' needs to stand on its own two feet, now that it's gotten its launch from 'Arrow.'

Whenever Washington makes a one-size-fits-all decision, it doesn't work in states all around the country.