Juliette Binoche Quotes

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

Follow your own star!

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

I think it's very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things... they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you're going.

I ain't going at nobody else pace.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

There are things one must do for oneself.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.