Guy Finley Quotes

I'm not a victim. And the people who are victims of something, my heart is completely with them. But I'm not. I know I've been treated like a woman in this business [acting]. I mean I've got lots of stories, but they don't have any control over me.

People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

I tend to not speak up as much, so saying no is rather difficult for me. The biggest step of being an adult is saying, "This is what I do like. This is what I don't like." Being yourself means certain people aren't going to like that. I'm still figuring it out and taking things day by day.

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you can go to a better club than the one you're at, then, regardless of what anyone says, you should go.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

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.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.