I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.
I'll be a role model on my terms, but don't make a role model on your terms.
I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.
All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms.
I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.
I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.
I still want to do features, but on my own terms.
There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.
But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.
Most of the great players leave the game under their terms.
I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.
I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms.
Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.
I have never had any contact with Bayern Munich, let alone have agreed personal terms.
Acting is just a part of my life, and I like to lead life on my terms.
Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.
If you fail on your own terms, that's a pretty good way to go down.
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.
All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.
