Quotes About Expression

The people in Cuba, they know what I stand for, and there's a lot of people in Cuba that stand for the same. But they can't say it.

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that just comes out on stage. If I see people react to me and my music, I just have to give back and express myself.

I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

Whatever we were saying in our music had to represent something and really stand for something. I just wanted to do something with purpose.

We did want to stand for something, not just cute girls with cute concepts. Everything we talk about has meaning behind it.

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

The truth is, women don't stand up, they're too hushed, they don't like to say stuff.

We have the freedom of speech. We are able to hold hands in protest and stand up for what we believe in and have people hear what you have to say.

I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal rights is something that you really believe in, and you have a voice that people listen to, and you need to share that - I think that's really important.

Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not mad at any human being because I'm a human being.

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

For free-speech principles to be reinforced and free-market ideas to win the day, more people are going to have to stand up and be heard.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.

Someone who is comfortable, someone who is happy, you see them immediately sit up, stand up and feel better about themselves. If you're able to capture that in a picture, that's the most beautiful picture you can ever take of someone.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it.

My father was the one who used to stand up in the middle of a number to flutter his lips and make sputtering sounds into lyrics.

As a human being, I do feel like it's my right to be able to stand up for and speak on whatever I want.