Luise Rainer Quotes

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

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.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

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'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

… not to destroy individualism but to protect it

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

I think what my 42 years of life has given me is just how important it is to live your own life.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

I've lived my whole life in the life - I've lived my whole life doing the thing, I've been doing my own thing. And I think my life speaks volumes about what one must do.

I fight for the right to be an individual. I have to be meself.

I'm an actress: I'm used to being independent, doing for myself.

I'm not obsessed with the idea of fame or lots of money or social power. I can actually do want I want to do - I'm free - isn't that the greatest prize?

I refused from the beginning to restrict myself to any sort of lifestyle.

I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway, And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.

You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.

I was not born to be forced.