Denis Diderot Quotes

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.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

The dignity and importance of the individual. I try to hang on to that in all my films.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

I enjoy making the decisions.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

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

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

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.

For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

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

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.