Quotes About Freedom

I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.

I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.

You don't have to follow every recipe to the letter.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

I've never got on with recipes. Free yourself - throw them out!

I hate recipes.

It's very Western to idealize a kind of love that does not come with any expectations, that still permits both the giver and recipient to be completely free.

I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.

I live wild and free and reckless, but that's the price you have to pay for rock.

'Fat' was a terrible, terrible word for me growing up. When I was able to reclaim it and call myself fat and identify with it, that was the best moment ever. That was the moment I really started to feel free.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'

I am not against freedom of speech, and I recognise the value of fair publication.

I want to get up and ride my horses, do what I love doing. I don't want to be recognised.

Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.

The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.