Top 580 Independent Quotes

It doesn’t matter if you’re doing a studio movie or you’re doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you’re doing a scene, it’s always going to be the same job. I really don’t think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what this does for me.
Kristen Stewart
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Susan Sontag
The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.
Chiang Kai-shek
Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.
Don Henley
If you are concerned you are the victim of illegal corporate surveillance, you should seek specialist – and independent – legal advice at once.
Robert Rinder
I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.
Elizabeth Berkley
I’m an independent, probably. I’m not dogmatic. I’ve supported Democrats and Republicans.
Jerry Weintraub
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
William J. Clinton
I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.
Jello Biafra
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.
Jon Meacham
If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.
Franjo Tudjman
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.
Clarence Thomas
Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.
Thomas Frank
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
Mahmoud Abbas
I’m a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I’m fiercely independent, and I’m really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.
Eva Mendes
By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.
Veerappa Moily
TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.
Eric Stoltz
We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.
Thomas Friedman
I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
Valerie Azlynn
I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.
Mira Nair
TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can’t.
Jessica Lange
Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
Brittany Snow
I’ve become a real housewife. Terry doesn’t mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn’t go very far.
Marta Kristen
Give us a break! I’ve hardly done anything but independent films.
Emily Blunt
I’m so drastically independent; I don’t tend to flourish in relationships.
Julia Butterfly Hill
A motorcycle is an independent thing.
Ryan Hurst
I’m an independent type. No one tells me what to do.
Greta Van Susteren
Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can’t.
Jesse Eisenberg
Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
Wayne Dyer
For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.
James Surowiecki
Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.
Anne Frank