Barry Hannah Quotes

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.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I had been the dutiful son and husband for so long, I had forgotten about living for myself.

My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me really want to do that. I am my own person, and I think that the only thing with the Hemingway name is that it has gotten me in the door.

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

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.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

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.

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere. Which is how it should be.

The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to say or what to sing.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

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.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies' books, because I didn't want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role - very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.