Jillian Hervey Quotes

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

I feel I'm my own quarterback and have accomplished my own things.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

I had to go off to do my own thing, to get my confidence as a writer, and a performer.

It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.

I did my one-woman show in order to show people what to do with me.

I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.

The beauty of knowing yourself is nobody else has to.

I train as smart as I can. I'm not concerned what others think. I do what works for me.

I don't really focus on other people's expectations of me. I only care what my own expectations are.

I am not inspired by anyone. I don't have any idol. I just follow the people around me and try and learn a few things.