Steven Spielberg Quotes

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

For me, the times in my life when I've been single have been more formative and crucial than I could have imagined. I can cope, function and be happy on my own. I'm highly capable. That doesn't mean I don't like being with a partner, or that I don't feel more rounded when I'm with someone. But the times on my own have been so good.

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

I need space to grow and get old and be a human being. I don't want to be trapped in your ingenue bubble. And I don't agree with it either, by the way.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I'm still very much Kate.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.