Quotes About Freedom

You are at the mercies of the dailies. With an indie you don't have that.

'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do is going to mess it up. So, going into it, I felt sort of very free to look at it as a filmmaker does.

I think that's what I love about jazz is that you can do what you want, and you're allowed to mess up.

The best working experiences I've had are with directors who want to create with you while you're on set. I prefer a much freer environment. That's why I'm always trying to mess things up, just to know that I can!

I remember Phillip Schofield saying to us, just before we started 'SMTV: Live'... 'It will be the best fun you will ever have on telly.'You know what the innocence and freedom we got on that show you don't get anywhere else. We could just mess about.

A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

I'm not going to tell Messi how to live his life - or anyone else, for that matter.

I'm not really interested in people. I just like messing around in cars.

Democracy is messy.

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

If I could not be in this free and wonderful country - I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, mind you - Mexico is where I would live. I love Mexico, and I love the Mexican people.

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

One of the main reasons I came back to Mexico is because I've found freedom and democracy here, something I never found in the United States.

There's a lot of freedom to do anything you want in Mexico. It's just that that freedom belongs to a few. It's a huge country with a big contrast. There is this big inequality, so those like us that have the chance to do things, we know we are very lucky.

I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.

I've surfed on Lake Michigan.

The microphone is open. There is no delay. If I see something and want to say it right now, I can.

I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.

It was mid-life crisis time and you can't have more of a mid-life crisis than going off on a motorbike.

I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It seemed claustrophobic.

Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.