Quotes About Freedom

We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

I don't mind getting involved in a risky project as long as I don't have to stay married to it if the script turns out lousy.

We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because these people don't understand what freedom is.

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

People want to do authentic things. They want to go horseback riding, fishing, shooting or searching for turtle nesting spots on the beach.

Prison is no hardship, really. I'm in the art room as an assistant to the tutor, and basically, I'm doing what I like.

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn't affect me. I got out in time.

One of the nice things about not working on a TV show anymore is that I'm not on any particular kind of clock.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift.

There are times where we are shooting a TV show, and it goes very fast. But everybody has this freedom to still be artists.

Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.

In theater, you can be free. That's how Lin-Manuel Miranda got to do the most revolutionary piece of theater with 'Hamilton': color-blind casting in roles in which they would never cast Latinos if it were a film or TV show. It just goes to show that Hollywood and cable are way behind.

I never want to get tied to one project or be in one TV show forever.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

In the end, censoring a comedian's jokes is on par with censoring 'Huckleberry Finn.' Now, I'm not comparing myself to Mark Twain - he had much wavier hair and a slightly thicker mustache. But when you deny an artist the chance to explore his art, you're forcing your beliefs on him.

I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.

I have every right to tweet.

I have some help on tweeting.

In Russia, tweeting or sharing real news that's embarrassing to the regime can land you in prison. Imagine, then, the response of the regime to 'fake news' that's damaging to the Kremlin.