On My Own Quotes

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.

One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

I figured that I'm going to bring my own version of Billy Flynn and do my very best with it and let it go.

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

After the feet of beauty fly my own.

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

A lot of my own problems are because I'm so financially irresponsible. I'm so stupid when it comes to money. And I'm ashamed of it.

I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives.

What I like best about teaching is that it allows me to explore my own interest with a group.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.

I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

I've always been brought up to stand on my own two feet and not rely too heavily on everyone else around me.

I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.

I'm always trying to mentor young women. I speak on college campuses and I have events in my own studio where I open it up to women's groups to learn. I feel really strongly about it.

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.

I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

I don't really have time [to babysit my twin cousins]. And, well, I actually have my own babysitter sometimes.

I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row.

I love doing my own make-up.

I realized that I needed to know more about the business side of things. I don't like feeling uneducated about things, and feeling uneducated about my own business felt ridiculous.

When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.

I'm really a big believer in working with people. It's challenging for me to come into already integrated brands and find a way where I can put my own flair on it.

I know that I cannot control anyone else's actions but my own, and how I choose to react to situations.

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.