Theresa Rebeck Quotes

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.

My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take 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 enjoy making the decisions.

I want to go out on my terms.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

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

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

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.'

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.

Regardless of anything, I'm gonna write my own story and my own ending.

You never want to put yourself in that position where you don't control your own destiny.

I'm all about owning your life.