Jessica Barden Quotes

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.

I chose to go to CAA. I think me becoming my own man is going to make it easier, honestly.

Moana doesn't have a love interest because this movie is about a journey - a physical one across hundreds and hundreds of miles of ocean, but also an emotional one of Moana finding herself. She doesn't need a man or love interest to find herself.

I've paved this road myself, and no one else has walked it the same exact way that I have. There are people that helped kick the door in, but it's really satisfying to be in a place where you know who you are and you've figured yourself out.

Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.

I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.

It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.

You should wear what you want to wear and not worry about trying to paint yourself in a certain image because that self-awareness is what's going to help you become a more independent and more interesting and healthier adult.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.