Quotes About Freedom

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

I don't think I was ever cut out for a 9 to 5 white collared profession.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

I am a gypsy, in a way. It's a condition of my profession.

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.

In my 20s and 30s, I vociferously wanted to be single. I rarely got into long-term relationships and enjoyed going out with different people.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

I think dancing always took me to a different place. It was hard and it was a struggle, but it took me to the kind of place I wanted to live in. It wasn't real life.

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.

Playing character roles gives me the freedom to try out different roles, including negative ones or elderly ones. When one is playing the lead role, clearly there are limitations and responsibilities.

Sometimes you forget how good it feels to just move, to express, to make different shapes, and let your body be free.

One of the amazing things about acting now is that you can try different things and have choices.

I am many different things, and that is why I am so proud to be American.

There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

Different women feel empowered in different ways, and it's not right to tell someone what they can and cannot do.

We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.

I guess my personality is that of a modern, strong Chinese woman. I don't believe in destiny. There are many things that can be changed. I don't like to be defeated by difficulties. I love freedom, so when I am shaping a character, I usually do it the way I want. I always find some part of my own character in a role.

Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity.

War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.