Giorgio Armani Quotes

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

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.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

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

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.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

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

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.

I don't have a boss. I don't answer to anybody. I do everything that I want to do out of the purity of making people happy.

You know what, I'm out there to give 100%, and I do what I think is best. I really don't care what other people think.

I will always make my own path.

Whatever I do I will do on my own strength.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.