Max Beerbohm Quotes

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

I don't have to play football.

For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

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.'

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

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.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.

Exercising choice is a good thing.

No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.

We always have a choice.

You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.

I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.