Do My Own Thing Quotes

“If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, This sucks. I'm going to do my own thing.”

— Yvon Chouinard

“It wasn't school that I dreaded at all. School was not half bad. In many ways, this year had been downright fun. No, what I hated most about school was the fact that I had to come here all by myself. Simon and Peter went to their classes and did their own things, and I had to do my own thing. The thing I loved about summer was that I shared it with my brothers. Sure, my brothers and I often fought, but the best times in my life came when I was with them. School was a time when I had to go and do something without a brother at my side.”

— Matthew Buckley

“My 'Moment of TRU' - I live, I love, I let be. I grind, I do my own thing, I stay in my own lane. Ain' got no worries because God is my source. I'm not perfect, but by grace I get better with every day God gives me.”

— LaNina King

“When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, but sometimes it is not good. I hope it's good in my case.”

— Adelina Sotnikova

“Coming from Ruff Ryders, there would be, like, 30 guys in the studio at once, and then me, trying to do my own thing.”

— Eve

“I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.”

— Kareena Kapoor Khan

“I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.”

— Amanda Harlech

“I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.”

— Annie Baker

“A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.”

— FKA Twigs

“I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.”

— Felicity Jones

“I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.”

— Sade Adu

“I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.”

— Sebastian Thrun

“When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.”

— Shannon Miller

“I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.”

— Buzz Osborne

“I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.”

— Maria Sharapova

“As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.”

— Marian McPartland

“I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.”

— Inbee Park

“I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.”

— Taylor Momsen

“I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.”

— Corey Clark

“I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.”

— Nadia Giosia

“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.”

— Jerry Jeff Walker

“I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.”

— Jessica Williams

“I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.”

— Dave Franco

“And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.”

— Olivier Martinez

“The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.”

— Donald Glover

“I want a girl who lets me do my own thing, but who is going to be by my side the whole time, because I know I'd be supportive of her. And kissing is a big thing for me! You have to be a good kisser.”

— Daren Kagasoff

“I think I do my own thing. I start my own trends. I see a lot of girls doing what I've been doing. Pink. Nobody wore pink, and now everybody wears it. It's flattering.”

— Paula Creamer

“I'd call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I'm kind of chilled out, laid back.”

— Zayn Malik

“I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.”

— Duncan D. Hunter

“I pretty much just focus on making the records - unless I'm self-releasing them; then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution, or it takes out of your time to write.”

— John Darnielle

“I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion ... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.”

— Rob Kardashian

“I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.”

— Shirley Manson

“I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don't care what anyone has to say about it. My joke is that the only people I'm trying to please are myself and my fans, because they're the ones buying my records. And I have the best, most loyal fan base ever.”

— Kelly Clarkson

“I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.”

— Tim Burton

“Right after high school, I moved to Rio and took classes to become a technician for a manufacturing factory where you had to figure out how to produce 3,000 pairs of jeans. But in Rio, I was by myself, which was very liberating, being so young. I got to do my own thing.”

— Francisco Costa

“I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.”

— Willie Aames

“It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“For a guy who didn't expect a fan base whatsoever, I'm pretty stoked. People say they don't understand it, and I say that's okay. I don't think anyone can argue that I'm not trying to do my own thing at least.”

— Aesop Rock

“I don't care what people think ... I learned a long time ago ... I was 19 and had a very traumatic experience ... .and I learned that I have to go to bed with myself at night and that I have to please myself ... and as long as I don't go out of my way to offend anybody that I love, upset my mother or my husband ... I'll do my own thing. And if the public doesn't like it, it's their problem, not mine.”

— Iris Apfel

“If this is love, no thanks. I don't want any part of it. When I'm older, I'm just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I'll date him, but I'm not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.”

— Jenny Han

“My mom, my father, my little sisters, and my brother - I don't got that much family. I'm not really a family person. I just do my own thing. But I've just been spending time with my mom, especially since the [September motorcycle] accident happened. I drive all the way down there to Georgia just to check up on her. You just get tired of being that person that you thought you were. I don't feel no different. I see the music, because I made it. I don't really see the fame.”

— Fetty Wap

“I think we're all just doing our own thing and finding our own paths and I think we just work really hard. I don't personally know some of the Disney girls as well as I know some of the Nickelodeon girls, but I have run into them and talked to them and they're all really cool and I respect them and what they do and I'm just trying to do my own thing.”

— Victoria Justice

“I just wanted to do my own thing after The Murderdolls. The Murderdolls were so spread out all across the US that we couldn't just say, "Let's go rehearse." For us we had like four days to rehearse because everyone had to book flights, so we just never got as tight as most bands should be.”

— Wednesday 13

“I do my own thing. I'm very much in the paradox of things. I enjoy the little things in life, what's big is small and what's small is big. It might not be the coolest thing to do, but it's important to me.”

— Katerina Graham

“When it's not training time, I just do my own thing. I go home and hang out with my family, kick back and [don't] think about the fight too much. I just look at it as another opportunity in my life to move up.”

— Josh Koscheck

“I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing.”

— Kiefer Sutherland

“I make my protein drink with whiskey. People think I'm crazy, but that's the way I am. I get stoned, I do my own thing.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.”

— Fetty Wap

“I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.”

— Charlie Kaufman

“I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."”

— Claes Oldenburg