Jacki Weaver Quotes

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.

For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

I would never tell someone else how to use their platform, because I think I'm much more comfortable allowing the work that I do to speak for itself.

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines.

I don't see myself in competition with anyone, I am in my own space; I don't follow anyone, though I appreciate good work always.

You can't say I look like this person or sound like this person exactly because I made it my own. I'm pretty, pretty influenced by myself right now.

I think everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms.

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.

We are individuals. There's free will. There's timing. We can make the same things in totally different ways.

I don't enjoy being told what to do, I'm not that kind of actor, I'm a thinking actor.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

You've got to make choices that make sense for you because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently.