Christian Bale Quotes

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms.

Being independent is everything. That's all I know.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.

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

I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.

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

Grown men do not need leaders.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

I am my own woman.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

I have always been independent.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.