Alia Shawkat Quotes

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

I would never wear anything because someone told me to.

I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.

Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me.

There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

I am not trying to chase what other people are doing.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.

Don't do something just because someone else wants you to

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

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.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

I would rather just do the things I want to do.

People have to do what they want to do.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

I have always done what I wanted to do.

I like to pick my causes and not be forced into doing something.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

I hold a jail more roomy ... than would be the whole world if I were to submit to repression.

Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

Every individual wishes the rest to live after his own mind, and to approve what he approves, and reject what he rejects.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done