Jodie Sweetin Quotes

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You've got to go your own way, and that's what I did.

Anybody can be anybody.

Be whatever you want to be.

I don't want to be Boogie. I just wanna be DeMarcus.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis.

I have been my own man. I feel like I can be me but I have obviously learned from the best.

I've always wanted to be my own person. Even when I was 'Noah who rode horses,' I wanted to be Noah Cyrus, not anyone else or a family member.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.