Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

The majority of decisions, I've always taken by myself.

I don't want to end up being dependent on anyone.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

We always did everything ourselves.

Nobody's going to help me when I get in that ring. That's how I like it: the responsibility's on me, and whatever happens is down to me, nobody else.

I've always been very independent; I take care of myself.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

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

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.