Abel Ferrara Quotes

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

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

I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I developed a sense of maturity when it comes to being dependent upon other people. I don't feel anyone really truly wants me to win more than I do.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

I have always had a bee in my bonnet about being seen to do things for myself.

I never needed anyone when I became an actress. I ran off to England on my own.

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

You have to empower yourself.

I don't ever want to be inspired by someone else. I want to be inspired by myself.

I think people sometimes get my message misconstrued and believe I'm trying to brag, but I'm genuinely trying to show people that you can do it all yourself, and there's so much power and freedom in that.