Isadora Duncan Quotes

I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way.

I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

I'd like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.

I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing.

I have learned to do what I want without hurting anyone. I've learned how to get away with it, with everything. I'm getting away with what I'm trying to do on film but also in my own way.

I rarely asks people for advice or permission when I'm planning on doing something I feel strongly about. That only opens the plan up to be crapped on.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

Leave my image alone... I will behave as I think I should and I will not change anything.

I need freedom to be happy.

I don't take nothin' from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I'm gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can't do that, then I'll just die.

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be an uncommon man—if I can. I seek opportunity, not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

I have absolutely no regrets. I have been conscious of what I was doing and I have never been willing to give up that particular freedom.

Don't ask f'r rights. Take thim. An' don't let anny wan give thim to ye. A right that is handed to ye fer nawthin has somethin the matter with it.

Freedom is sweet fat.

It is an adherent condition of human affairs that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others, can make it safe or salutary to tie up their own hands.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance?

Let us be free, the rest matters not.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.