Charlie Baker Quotes

We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

I feel like I have to have a voice.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

No one's going to tell me how to make my own choices. For too many years, everybody told me what to say and what to do and how to be.

To some extent, 'The Wall' is asking the question, 'Do you want a voice? And if you do, you better bloody well go out and get it because it's not going to be handed to you on a plate.'

I'll do what I like. It's my own life.

I have never spoken for anyone but myself.

I do what I want to do.

Don't let anyone speak for you, and don't rely on others to fight for you.

I want to live life on my own terms.

I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I've been getting along/ For long before you came into the play.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I want to go out on my terms.

Never let anyone silence your voice.

I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

We all stick up for ourselves and I think that's why we stand out, because we really don't care what other people think.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.