Amber Le Bon Quotes

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work.

I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

Work alone is noble.

I am an independent girl. I always put my work first in my priority.

I work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - don't depend on other people, do it yourself.

I work hard and support myself.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

My father felt that children should make their own way.

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

For me, nothing is given.

I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.

Being Sting's daughter hasn't kicked any doors open for me - he has had absolutely nothing to do with my career. It's all been down to me so far, and that's how I want to keep it.