Peter Coyote Quotes

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.

I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

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.

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.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

For six years, I was really on my own and did not have a coach.

I am not inspired by anyone. I don't have any idol. I just follow the people around me and try and learn a few things.

I know that I'm in grime, but I had to separate myself and do things myself.

I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.

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.

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