Ellen Page Quotes

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

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.'

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

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 walk where I choose to walk.

I want to go out on my terms.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I 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.

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

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

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

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

I just pretty much do what I want to do.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

It makes it a lot easier when you can make your own decisions.

When 'Siruthai' became a hit, there was suddenly a lot at stake. A lot of people were telling me what to do and what not to. But at some point, you realise that's not the way to go. Good or bad, you need to be making your own choices.