50 Movie Quotes about Independence (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 8, 2025

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

1 Fine. I don't need you. I can find my own way back.

David Spade as Emperor Kuzco in The Emperor's New Groove

2 You said it yourself, you're a family of one. Always will be. It's how guys like you and me survive.

Nick Nolte as Vincent in Over the Hedge

3 Listen, you think you can just show up and tell me how to live my life?

Matthew Broderick as Simba in The Lion King (1994)

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

Scott Weinger as Aladdin in Aladdin (1992)

5 It seems the only way to get things done in a timely, efficient manner is to do them myself.

Rabbit From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 If you want to go out there and freeze to death you be my guest... because you're on your own.

John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan in Monsters, Inc.

7 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

8 Not us, man. We're on our own. Every mosquito on his own.

Chris Rock as Mooseblood in Bee Movie

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

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

10 You're a rat! And I don't need you, and I can win the race on my own.

John C. Reilly as Wreck It Ralph in Wreck-It Ralph

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