Benny Goodman Quotes

I can do whatever I want, because my career is a certain thing.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

I rode all around Hollywood listening to Donna Summer, looking out the window - all by myself - just going, 'I'm number one!' It's a pretty extraordinary feeling.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms.

A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

He who is brave is free.

I walk where I choose to walk.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Freedom lies in being bold.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

There's so much boldness in living life this way, and we did it all, and no one can take it away from us.

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it.

I guess my personality is that of a modern, strong Chinese woman. I don't believe in destiny. There are many things that can be changed. I don't like to be defeated by difficulties. I love freedom, so when I am shaping a character, I usually do it the way I want. I always find some part of my own character in a role.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.