Djimon Hounsou Quotes

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

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 refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

Be whatever you want to be.

I figured out that it was important for me to have my identity, just live independently and like being myself, musically.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

I went to school for me - I didn't do it to make any sort of statement. So the very first year I was in school, I wasn't there under my own name. It was very incognito.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

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

Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

Everybody makes his path differently.

I am Roe.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

The free, self-determining, self-developing soul may not walk its own path, however innocently, but must fit into the scheme and pattern …

Each man must have his "I"; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilization has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual?

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.