Karren Brady Quotes

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

You have to make your own decisions. That's what the freedom in America is all about.

I want to go out on my terms.

I just go at my own pace and I like control of the TV and I like to decide when I take a shower and wash the dishes and stuff like that. So I don't know who would want to live with me to be honest!

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

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

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

I'm very independent.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

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.'

I would rather just do the things I want to do.

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

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

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

I have always done what I wanted to do.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

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

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

It's cool to see a woman be like, 'This is what I want - this is what I don't want.' It's good to see someone making choices for themselves.

No one's going to tell me how to make my own choices. For too many years, everybody told me what to say and what to do and how to be.