Amy Ryan Quotes

I cook and do my own laundry.

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.'

I'm a very good laundress when I have to be.

When you're by yourself you have to sort out everything like the shopping and looking after the house.

We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.

I want to marry after traveling alone, meeting many people, and experiencing a variety of things, and when I'm certain I can be responsible of myself.

If you can't hire someone smarter than you, do it yourself.

I've always been very independent; I take care of myself.

If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

You're all you've got.

I am very independent. I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care.

As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."

You have people like Sarah Jessica Parker - and it's also because of her mother and where she came from and all that stuff - but how you're taught to be responsible for yourself rather than endlessly people waiting for you and bringing you things.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

Do for yourself or do without.

I have learned that it is no one else’s job to take care of me but me.

We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.

We are all individuals. I can't eat for you and you can't eat for me. I can't sleep for you and you can sleep for me. We are absolutely all individuals. When our purpose is fulfilled, it feels beautiful. That is, to me, the feeling of fulfillment.

If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.

What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.