Independence quotes

“The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.”
Norma Shearer

“- Religious Man: Son, you're at a turning point in your life.
- Sonny Burns: Then let me take the fucking turn myself!”
Jerry Panatieri - Religious Man
Jeremy Davies - Sonny Burns

“- Lex Luthor: You both stood your ground and are doing what you want. I caved. You two have inspired me.
- Clark Kent: Oh yeah. Joining the football team and pouring some coffee. We're a couple of real rebels.
- Lana Lang: Long live the revolution.”

Michael Rosenbaum - Lex Luthor
Tom Welling - Clark Kent
Kristin Kreuk - Lana Lang

“- Denise Dahlberg: I've been out riding around with Bruce.
- Jim Dahlberg: All night?
- Denise Dahlberg: Frankly, Daddy, that's none of your business.
- Jim Dahlberg: As long as you live...
- Denise Dahlberg: Oh Daddy, don't start this again, I'm getting married tomorrow.”
Lori Lethin - Denise Dahlberg
John Cullum - Jim Dahlberg

“Some animals were meant to carry each other, to live symbiotically for a lifetime - star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not those animals.”

George Clooney - Ryan Bingham

“A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.”
Loretta Young

“- Ed: You have kids, Gene?
- Gene: Two.
- Ed: Yeah? How old?
- Gene: Thirty and thirty-two.
- Ed: Wow, out of the house. Lucky you.
- Gene: Yep. Potty-trained and everything.”
Scott Winters - Ed
Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“The version of me that they want doesn't exist.”
Aubrey Peeples - Jem

“- Kathryn: I don't have a curfew, they never bother me about my homework, and I've got a five-figure allowance. No one, and I mean no one, is about to threaten my cushy lifestyle! Especially not some two-bit, hick loser like you.
- Sebastian: But...
- Kathryn: I don't want to hear it! Now as for school, you stay out of my face and we'll get...” (continue)(continue reading)

Amy Adams - Kathryn Merteuil
Robin Dunne - Sebastian Valmont

“I have made a vow never to give you information that could potentially alter your destiny. Your path is yours to walk, and yours alone.”
Leonard Nimoy - Spock Prime

“Get with the times, Greg. There's a new thing called Women's Lib. It means women get what they want.”
Christine Taylor - Marcia Brady

“I am Lobo. I hunt alone. I need no one.”
Steve Guttenberg - Gus Kubicek

“- Elizabeth: When you think you are in love your eyes are closed to all logic and reason. It's not the time to make a big decision.
- Carla: No but my eyes are not closed mother...
- Elizabeth: Shh dear Carla we can have this discussion without you getting upset in front of everybody, Carla...
- Carla: [shouting] My eyes are not closed mother!”
Diane Keaton - Elizabeth
Juliette Lewis - Carla

“I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss. ”
Kirk Douglas

“You better start learning to live with yourself, because we ain't gonna get rescued.”

Chris Furrh - Jack Merridew

“Each day we lose a little bit more of our separate, sovereign ability to determine our own futures. And each day the world comes a little bit closer to that terrible moment when the beating of a butterfly's wings unleashes a hurricane God himself cannot stop.”

Alan Bates - Dressler

“See? I can take care of myself - all by myself. I'm not afraid to be alone. I know my way to go, and I'm not afraid of Sharptooth... I hope he doesn't eat any of you!”
Candace Hutson - Cera

“- Ursa: You are master of all you survey.
- General Zod: So I was yesterday. And the day before.”
Sarah Douglas - Ursa
Terence Stamp - General Zod

“Some day you're gonna get in a situation where you can't call for help. You'll have to depend on yourself, and you'll let yourself down. I'm not calling because I don't want your mother to think we can't make it home on our own. Call it male pride. Good, old fashioned, pig-headed, working-class, pre-fax machine/car phone, masculine pride. No...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ed O'Neill - Dutch Dooley

“Personally I'm of the opinion that for a paper to best perform its function, it really needs to stand alone.”
Liev Schreiber - Marty Baron

“Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.”
Brittany Murphy

“I really do like being independent, and I don't want to have to rely on anyone else to cart me around if I break a bone.”
Blythe Danner

“I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.”
John Leguizamo

“- Col. Harry Burwell: This is not a war for the independence of one or two colonies, but for the independence of one nation.
- Capt. Wilkins: Tell me, Colonel, what nation is that?
- Peter Howard: An American nation!”
Chris Cooper - Col. Harry Burwell
Adam Baldwin - Capt. Wilkins
Joey D. Vieira - Peter Howard

“My journey to America can be traced back to the independence of India, the land of my fathers.”
Dinesh D'Souza - Himself