Quotes About Interpretation

I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

There is no asterisk in the Constitution that says 'except for hate speech.'

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Courts are supposed to interpret laws to avoid 'absurd results' and to avoid constitutional problems - such as infringing on the free speech rights of Americans.

I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.'

Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.

I found out I'd spent my whole life believing things that weren't necessarily accurate. My sisters' memories of certain events are entirely different from mine.

I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music in 'Partita' is kind of like choreography for me.

Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

How did I write 'Spin Me?' I listened to Luther Vandross's 'I Wanted Your Love.'

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'

That's the thing with 'Lost': you can put a spin on so many things.

When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.

When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet'... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.

When I get a beautifully written piece of material, I immediately start imagining how I would interpret it. I love just daydreaming about it for months, breaking it down, seeing where I can spin something. How I can turn this into the most fun ride for the audience that I can make it? That's my job.