Leslie Jordan Quotes

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

My idea of putting the city on is giving inspiration to others to want to put themselves on. You should never depend on someone else to put you on. I used to do that, and it didn't get me anywhere.

If I don't get work, I'll create it.

When there is no work, I create my own.

In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.

When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

I would say to someone, 'Make your own stuff sooner.' Also, it's OK to say no to something if it doesn't feel right.

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

In order to be creatively satisfied and financially secure, you need to be a self-starter. I'm always assuming nothing's going to work out and I have to roll up my sleeves.