Kip Pardue Quotes

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

Do whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your provider. That way, in the future, you will be all right regardless of the circumstances.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

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.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

With AC/DC, if you've got a problem, you sort it out yourself.

One thing that was drummed into me when I was younger is that you have to make your own way in life, that you mustn't expect anyone else to support you.

Whatever I do I will do on my own strength.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

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

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

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

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

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

I basically raised myself.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.