Matt Nagy Quotes

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

I hate exercising self-control.

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.

Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.

The disciplined are free.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I have to reign myself in a lot.

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.