Thomas Huxley Quotes

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

I feel I'm entitled to make my own decision.

I don't listen to anybody. You need my help: Come to me, shut up, forget who you are. I will take care of you. And I do my job.

What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.

I just pretty much do what I want to do.

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

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

It makes it a lot easier when you can make your own decisions.

I don't particularly like being told what to do.

I do not like to be told what to do, but in the end, I take my own decisions.

But my whole career, I have done things my way and the way that I wanted.

I believe in empowering people rather than advising them and forcing them in a direction which I feel is right.

I see too many children who have their lives decided for them from the moment they are born. I want to give them the power to decide their own lives.

I am trying to be true to the work that I want to do and be allowed to make the choices that I want to make.

Take advice, but don't take orders.

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.