Irvine Welsh Quotes

You are what you choose to identify with. You have the choice. A mouse raised by pigeons.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

You choose who you want to be.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant.

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Who gets to decide what you want?

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.

I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.

Values are rooted in a basic optimism about life and a faith in free will.

We are what we make.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

I can be whoever I want. I can feel however I want.

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.