Eric Nam Quotes

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

Do everything yourself.

I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

I had to work on my own to establish myself.

Nobody is pushing me. Nobody is telling me what I do.

I don't really care what anyone else is doing. I'm only focussed on my work.

I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens.

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.

I have always worked on my own terms.

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

My kids learned to be independent.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

I am very hands on doing my own work, all my own stunt work.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

I would prefer myself to own all of my brand, where everything I am responsible for myself.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.