Quotes About Expression

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, but it's really beautiful when it's done well, when it's within a story. I'm very comfortable with my body. I grew up mostly in France, where nudity is not taboo.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.

Within TG, we liberated the use of the lyric forever. There was no longer a taboo on what could be discussed in the conceptual format of a song.

I'm such a spiritual person and in Sweden it's a bit taboo to be too open with your spirituality; they always think it's a bit weird.

I love the fact we do break taboos.

I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of.

Prince was not scared. The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS, it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.' He was not afraid of taboos.

In feature animation, it's kind of taboo to make a movie that's more cartoony. But I never really believed that.

Unconventionality is no longer a taboo. It is being applauded and celebrated by both the classes and the masses.

My father wasn't just taciturn - it was like he didn't want to be heard.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

I won't tackle something like furries, because there's nothing new to say. Also, I won't do anything that I think will put my life at risk.

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.

There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.

It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.

A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.

When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.

I can speak with the eyes, but I find saying 'I love you' very tacky. It's too mushy.

My tactic is to make eyes at someone.