Freedom To Act Quotes

When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.

[President Jimmy Carter] had so much going for him. He was elected without any real commitments.... To come in with no commitments gives a President a marvelous, broad flexible horizon of operation.

I'm able to be very effective because I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican. So, I'm not tied, and I'd never want to be tied to anything, to some constituency that I would have to answer to.

When you have nothing to lose, the sky's the limit.

When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

I'm a free safety. The one responsibility I have is making the play, really. So I take those chances.

In a final, anything is possible.

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

When I play at my best is when I play with the least amount of inhibition, when I think less.

It's exciting to originate Jessica Jones. There's obviously more freedom in that versus playing a well known character.

I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.

There is no longer any pressure to play the heroine. So I can have fun and be the actor I want to be. I can look beyond the hairstyles and the clothes and concentrate on the acting.

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

People live a lot freer in their body and their voices and their moves than people act onscreen.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.

I like to be directed, but when I'm flying and I'm on fire, I don't want someone coming and getting in my way just because they feel like they need to.

So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.

I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.

If you don't have the rights, you can't do the show.

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

I live by myself. I come in the door, I can throw my stuff on the floor. I can leave the dishes.

Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things

If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.