Lauren Ashley Carter Quotes

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

I think every actor wants a certain amount of control. Maybe not control, as such, but just to be part of the process. But it's not necessary, I guess.

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

I thank God I'm in a position where I can pick and choose - there are some roles I don't play.

I think women are taking charge of the origins of a production, which is the most important part. Because you can't be a victim of whatever people ask you to do.

I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.

I don't want to do every independent film offered to me.

Actors are very often people who are placed in a position where they think they have to be grateful for the job and have no control over what they play and how they play it. I was not taught that way. I completely disagree with that. I think that you have more control than you think.

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.

I don't suffer the decisions the studio world makes.

The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

It is extremely empowering when you are making fundamental and critical decisions on different levels of production, till the final showcase on the screen.

I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you're Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don't have much say in the decisions that affect their work.

It feels good to create, and to actually have input, and your choices are your choices.