Vicky Krieps Quotes

I think when you mature, you realize that you really don't have to do anything you don't want to do or be represented in a way that doesn't suit you.

I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do.

There are no limits to what you can create for you, because your ability to think is unlimited! But you cannot create other people's lives for them. You cannot think for them, and if you try to force your opinions on others you will only attract like forces to you. So let all others create the life they want.

But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

I think - and even with the Live Chin Up movement - it's about women doing things for themselves. Being empowered. Doing things that make you happy. I believe in that philosophy.

I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family...not even you.

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

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

Your personal freedom to experience yourself and life as you wish is not being limited. Step into your choices and stop telling yourself that you can't, when what you really mean is that you don't want other people to feel the way you think that are going to feel when they see you making the choices you really want to make.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.

In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

You don't need to give reasons for the things you do- you just have to do what you want. And sometimes the thing that seems messed up to everyone else is what's right for you. You have to do it and not be ashamed of it.

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

I don't live on other people's terms.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Do you always do as you would like to do were it in your power? I find that circumstances force me often to act in a manner quite opposite to what I should prefer; I am, of course, judged by my acts, but do they really afford a true key to my character? I think not.