Claudia Gray Quotes

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.

Many a boomerang does not return but chooses freedom instead.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

My days are whatever I want them to be.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was literally walking out of a jail cell that I had been in. At that moment, I realized I could shave if I wanted. It was up to me and no one else.

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

We're allowed as adults to create a life that we like. Kids don't have that freedom.

There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.'