Rachel Cohn Quotes

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

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.

It makes it a lot easier when you can make your own decisions.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I want to go out on my terms.

I have to do this my way.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

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 did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

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

I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.

I am going to walk away when I'm ready to walk away. Not because of a win or a loss.

I made a decision a few years back to never again do anything professionally that I didn't want to do.

I like to have control over what I'm doing, and that no one else is controlling me.