Quotes About Choice

I'm in a position where - I mean, not a lot of people are in a very fortunate position - where I kind of have the power to choose what I want to do in a way.

That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.

In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

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.

Each day we choose to live the legacy we want to leave.

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

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.

The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be a nasty little foe – the choice is yours – choose your attitude.

Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

I think I've been fortunate over the years to be at a point in my career where I really get to choose the partnerships that I really want to take on and they're a perfect fit.

Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.

No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.

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

I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.

Man is free the moment he wants to be.

The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making

As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on.

In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.

Not everyone wants to be happy

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.

Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.

Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.

Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to be done.