I FOUND that not having a PUBLIC profile was not HURTING the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

I feel that if I am freed of the BURDEN of politics, then I can do more and I can take more UNPOPULAR decisions. I can have as my GUIDANCE for decision whatever is right, not whatever is POPULAR.

I feel that if I am freed of the BURDEN of politics, then I can do more, and I can TAKE more UNPOPULAR decisions.

More having to do whatever ANYBODY SAID you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace BECAME my NAME, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

Simon Bolivar turned over all of his land. He freed all of his slaves, and he turned them into soldiers, and he BROUGHT them here. He brought them to PERU and Carabobo, and he worked TOGETHER with the TROOPS of San MARTIN to liberate this continent. That is Simon Bolivar.

Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue LIVES their PARENTS and grandparents could NEVER have. It made AMERICA MODERN.

My FIRST two NOVELS were SET in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of WAYS; it allowed me to find my way into my STORY and my characters through research.

All of my EXPERIENCES modeling, acting, doing THEATER, it's all in the WORK now. And the work freed me to TRANSFORM myself.

The people that have INSPIRED me the most were dancers and choreographers. Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain WAY, I knew that as an artistic lane, DANCING was the one that was a little more freed up - LIKE, no one in my family is really doing that; I can be that PERSON.

To SAY that I could manipulate one of the men who has shown the most courage before the CUBAN government, who GETS beaten every day, who did a HUNGER strike that freed political prisoners... I think that's absurd.

The FIRST time I went to NEW York, I met ALAN Freed.

I REALLY LIKE acting in FRENCH. It's actually quite DIFFERENT for me, from acting in English. It's FUN acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

When I had my baby, it REALLY freed my mind. No matter how well you do or how unsuccessful you are, there's STILL SOMEBODY who thinks you're the best in the WORLD.

What I sacrificed as I pursued my dreams was my comfort, not the lives of other people who looked to me to STAY afloat. That alone freed me to TAKE more RISKS, which did pay off in dividends. Having a safety net is an asset that most people do not have.

I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to LOOK at THINGS DIFFERENTLY.