Tracy Letts Quotes

When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting.

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

I always advise people never to give advice.

Facts do not give advice.

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

I'm not looking for guidance.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

To advise is not to compel.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

I would never presume to give anyone advice.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

You've got to take responsibility for your actions.

With awareness come responsibility and choice.

Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

If you want someone to show up and help you if something bad happens, you'd better tell someone where you're going. And of course I wanted someone to know - but I'd made a choice and it was a choice I was going to have to live with.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside … or in the back yard without a cover, and the cats come over and eat it, whose fault is it---the cat’s or the uncovered meat?

Do you think it’s wise, darling? You know you’ve got to rule this afternoon.