Lotte Lehmann Quotes

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.

he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.

Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.

Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.

When I was on Disney, in the back of my head, I wanted to do - not even for anyone else, just for me - I wanted to do something that was independent. And maybe a little darker.

I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.