Zendaya Quotes

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

I don't work with a stylist.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

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

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

I just don't like people to be dictated to. I think you should dress however you want.

At WSX I think I was very much trying to figure it out on my own and we were creating our own style and our own thing. I can only speak for myself, I was not trying to be anything. I was not trying to be like anyone else.

I am not defined to be in any mould and I can be whatever I want to be.

I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.

I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.

You don't have to live anybody else's story.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

I think a lot of women can see themselves in me and a lot of people in general are empowered by seeing someone wear what they want, do what they want, maybe get criticism or get praise, whatever, but still continue to wear and do what they want. I think that a lot of people need that.

I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.

We must every one be a man of his own fancy.

I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.

Like my freedom. If I feel like I'm being controlled, I get crazy. Because I know I made it this far by following my intuition. I think people like who I am, and I like who I am, and I want to be a better version of myself every single day. So stop controlling me!

There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me.

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.