Niki de St. Phalle Quotes

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.

I have always been independent.

I was always my own person.

I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

I'll do what I've got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I'm not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.

Some people have tried to change me and tell me what to do, but I haven't done it, and it's worked for me.

I'm my own player.

I don't worry about other people, and I don't let them influence me too much. I try to find out what I want to do and not what other people want me to do.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I've always done things my way.

I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

I am my own woman.

I can't be worrying about what other people think of me. I am my own person, and I have made it this far on my own. This is me - take me or leave me. I don't owe explanations to the rest of the world, only to my family.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

I'm very independent.

I try to be as independent as possible.

I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

I have always done what I wanted to do.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.