Gong Li Quotes

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

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.

People should just let me be.

I just want to do things on my own terms as much as possible.

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

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

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

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

Freedom is a unique concept that everyone interprets differently.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

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.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

I do what I want.

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

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

The way I define what I do is, basically, I do whatever I want.

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.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

I content myself with my own. I wish to command only my own subjects; but on the other hand I do not choose that anyone shall have it in his power to command me.