Mila Kunis Quotes

I no longer enjoy drawing people's pets. I just want to draw what I want to draw and have people not tell me what to draw.

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

I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.

When 'Siruthai' became a hit, there was suddenly a lot at stake. A lot of people were telling me what to do and what not to. But at some point, you realise that's not the way to go. Good or bad, you need to be making your own choices.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything - why can't I?

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.

I'll sing for my films only when I want to.

Don't do something just because someone else wants you to

I guess it's a personal preference. Me, personally, I like to be able to tell the stories that I want to tell and do the things that I want to do. It takes a little bit more work, but that's what the production side is.

I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

I've always said the shoes must never tell the foot how big to be.

I want to end my career on my terms, not on what people think I should do.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

I don't feel pressure, because I do what I want to do. I don't feel pressure at all. I've never done any movies because I thought this was what somebody wanted me to do. I'm a bit more, for lack of a better word, selfish than that. But like I say in the movie, you do what you have to do so that you can do what you want to do.

I take no notice of the trends. It has never concerned me at all. My job is to deal with what I want to deal with and reach an audience by doing so.

People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's no middle man, you know.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.