Sophie Rundle Quotes

I really like doing stand-up, because it gives you an immense amount of freedom. You haven't got anyone telling you what to do. It's great to have that much power over what you do. You don't have that in television.

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

I did not necessarily feel that Hollywood was interested in what I wanted to do. They wanted me to do what they wanted to do.

Within the Universal deal, we've always felt like an independent act. We've never been told what to do. We've used their resources to our own design.

It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a writer, you are in control.

I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.

Being signed to a major label was never an option because I knew having the time to find out who you are without pressure from other people is so important.

I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you're Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don't have much say in the decisions that affect their work.

Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.

When I was doing something on someone else's dime, I was inclined to try to anticipate what they wanted. I knew that wasn't what an artist was supposed to do. In funding my own music, I found my voice.

In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

Trends keep changing, but I have and will always do what I like to do!

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

I still want to do features, but on my own terms.

We have full creative control, we have a giant audience that loves what we do, and we can make whatever we want.

I don't like being watched, and I don't like being told what to do, so acting is a very poor professional choice.

It is so cool having complete control over something because, with acting, it's words written by other people that you perform; you do something that's completely not yourself.

Definitely, doing my solo stuff, it's fun in a different way. I get a lot more say. However, there's a lot more work to do because I have to make everything happen.

Now I know that however big a film, you have every right over how you want to be seen on screen.

Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.

I'm not going to do a song just because it's with Drake.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.

When I get to make a movie, I really try to make it on my own terms.