Paul Rudd Quotes

I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.

I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.

I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.

I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

A person who willingly goes into business for themselves - and intentionally seeks out 'solopreneurship' - is insane!

The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want.

I thought, 'I have ideas. I'm creative.' I just didn't see why I should be pigeon-holing myself in the business world or staying in corporate America when I already knew that I was capable of taking risks.

The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself.

I love singing opera, but the world surrounding it is not me. I want to be barefoot. I want to be in control of my own career. I want to put on a show. In the opera world, you wait for people to call you until you get to a certain level. In the folk world, it's a lot easier to have control from the beginning.

So, as I step out and take these first steps on this journey to do my own thing, I didn't want to have to get anybody's approval on anything. I didn't want to have to ask a record label 'Is this okay for the album cover? What time do you think I should go on tour this year?'

Part of the American dream is 'I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.'

I'm not of the mind where, 'It doesn't matter what you care about; you've got to have a safe reliable job and do the 9 to 5.' I obviously don't subscribe to that. There's nothing wrong with that, though, if that's what you want to do.

I'm my own boss, you know?

I started working in London, and I've been free-lance ever since.