Francoise Gilot Quotes

I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

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

I don't worry about other people, and I don't let them influence me too much. I try to find out what I want to do and not what other people want me to do.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

I've always been like nah, I'm going to have it my way, that way, when I look out that window at the end of the day, I can say I did it my way, whether it's on a higher level, or a level where I can just maintain, I can still say I did it my way.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

I am definitely an individual.

I was always my own person.

I'm so drastically independent; I don't tend to flourish in relationships.

I appreciate individualism.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

I feel I'm entitled to make my own decision.

I really do like being independent, and I don't want to have to rely on anyone else to cart me around if I break a bone.

I am a rank individualist.

I try to be as independent as possible.

I was always an independent, even when I had partners.