Quotes About Independence

We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.

I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

One of the great rights as an American citizen is freedom of speech, one of the things that makes this country what it is.

We have a beautiful right in this country, which is freedom of speech.

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.

I have a lot of friends who say that one of the freedoms of being older is you don't care what other people think, which I don't think is right. You care what other people think, but if you're comfortable in your own skin, that doesn't bother you.

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

As an actor, you are always waiting for someone else to be able to tell you when it's okay to work, and as a writer, you can just pick up your computer and start whenever you want. That is really freeing.

I think when you work enough on your doing freelance stuff on other films, you start to feel what it feels like to work with people who are not totally on the same page as you.

I've lived a life of unplanned freelance employment.

It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

I'm very happy being able to travel freely and go anywhere I want to.

You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.

Bigger-budgeted films have more restrictions and less freedom to create. Because of this, I try to find freedom in the people I work with. I often work in ways I don't want to. It's more about controlling the situation. Lower-budget films are freer.

I think that, as you get older, you want to be freer rather than more bound.

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French.

My mum was a lone parent at the age of 18, bringing up a son in the 1980s. The benefits system put food in the fridge.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.