Bernadette Peters Quotes

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

I don't play no one else's game and I don't run no one else's race because if I did that, I wouldn't be who I am.

You just gotta live your life and do it your way.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

I'm not driven by being understood.

I am definitely an individual.

I appreciate individualism.

Let me do me.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Always take your own path. And do what feels right for you.

My life is my life, and I'll live it.

Who ever lives life on their own terms?

Everyone just needs to be his own man.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

No one can stop me from living my life the way I want to.

I do what I do. I live my life the way I've been living it.

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.