12 Movie Quotes about Autonomy (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: July 6, 2025

Memorable quotes about autonomy, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 To be my own master. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.

Quote from Aladdin (1992)

2 Look, you've got it all wrong. You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody. You've got to think for yourselves. You're all individuals.

Graham Chapman in Monty Python's Life of Brian

3 Hey, what do you say we both be independent together, huh?

Hermey The Elf in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

4 I don't need you to shelter and protect me.

Quote from Lady and the Tramp

5 But I don't need anybody. I'm... I'm independent.

Hermey The Elf in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

6 Didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.

Quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

7 I want them to stop looking to me for answers, begging me to speak again, write again, be a leader. I want them to start thinking for themselves. And I want my privacy.

James Earl Jones as Terence Mann in Field of Dreams (1989)

8 I don't want to get married, ever, to anyone. You understand that? I want to do what I want to do.

James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

9 We love freedom. We love independence, to feel, to question, to resist oppression.

Quote from Battlestar Galactica (1978)

10 Thanks for the thought. That's not for me. Hate being tied down by women... like excess baggage. Besides, I've always been independent.

Quote from The Deadly Breaking Sword (1979)