Joan Rivers Quotes

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says.

Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.

My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

You can't trust actors.

I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.

I feel like anything I've ever done, I've been strongly advised not to do.

You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you.

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

With agents, I've learned to bring them into the process when I feel confident. You're the only one that can really know what's right for your career. You're on a wing and a prayer through most of it.

Don’t keep dogs and bark yourself.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

People don't understand this: if you want to have a really good shot at succeeding, there are doors you have to slam in people's faces and say, 'This is my priority, and you can't depend on me to help you.' I was never good at that.

Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.

I don't trust anyone... It's something that I have to live with, and I have to find the balance of who I want in my life and who isn't good for me.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

I don't have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

Just because somebody says no doesn't mean that you have to listen. You can do what you think is right.

If you're struggling, it's easy to feel powerless until you take control of it and assert what you want. I can understand that feeling. I can understand how it feels to be alone, to not want to get help from people and to not trust people who are actually wanting the best for you. I feel like that's true for a lot of people, actually.

Everybody was telling me I should just stand alone on my first project, and I started to see what they were saying.

I don't like people; I don't let too many people into my life.

I think, at the end of the game, guys gotta trust themselves more. I think sometimes - not myself, but sometimes, guys - they look to Kobe too much.