Gemma Arterton Quotes

If you're a strong female, you don't need permission.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

I need someone who is able to hold her own - if a girl is really independent, that's a turn-on for me.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I like women who are self-sufficient.

I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

If you live your life on your own terms, you might find that people actually give you more respect.

I'm my own player.

How does a queen bee behave? However she wants to. But please don't wait for someone to hold the door open for you when your own arms work perfectly fine - do it yourself.

The only thing I consciously avoid is playing the victim. I think women are portrayed as the victim in so many things, and I really like women with strength - although I feel now I may have gone overboard by playing so many strong, sassy women.

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous...very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

All I've ever needed is myself.

So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.

I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

I am my own woman.

I can't be worrying about what other people think of me. I am my own person, and I have made it this far on my own. This is me - take me or leave me. I don't owe explanations to the rest of the world, only to my family.

I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.

I have always been independent.