The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Art Wit Will

Acting is more creative and liberating than production.

Abhay Deol

Tin Than T

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Abraham Maslow

Education Tin T

I'm used to working with a rehearsal process and your body. It's a different thing to just be a voice. It's liberating, on one hand, because you get to show up in sweatpants and with Doritos on your fingers, but on the other hand, it's limiting because it's just your voice.

Adrian Pasdar

Work Your Body Your

You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.

Ahmed Chalabi

Work Sad Art

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

World Various Use

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

Alanis Morissette

Time Peace Mom

When you have something that is bothering you, and then you articulate, take the time to really express it and see it clearly, to recognize. To acknowledge that is already a liberating energy.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Time Knowledge Art

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Yourself Yours Your

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you. The experience was so good.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Good Experience Yourself

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Yin Tin T

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

Aly Khan

Us Unjust UN

Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.

Amitava Kumar

Writing Way Us

It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience.

Andrew McCarthy

Experience Wonderful Wonder

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Angela Davis

Society Well Tin

I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

Ani DiFranco

You York Why

To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love Great Tin

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

Annette Bening

Hope Good Your

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

Annie Leibovitz

Word Tin T

While I loved my family, I would always have this association with my father. I would always be coming up against that conservatism. It was just liberating to be in London.

Ardal O'Hanlon

Love Family Would

While I try to retain the slightly odd perspective and some of the innocence, it's really liberating to be able to talk/rant about all the stuff that bothers me.

Ardal O'Hanlon

While Try Tin

Making independent films is liberating. It eliminates self-censorship, which mainstream films are infected with due to commercial priorities.

Arfi Lamba

I don't have to be a pretty face. I've done that, but now it's important and liberating to be on the other side of the lens. I don't like to be the center of attention anymore.

Ashley Olsen

Zero budget filmmaking is frustrating but also liberating.

Atul Kulkarni

A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.

Banks

There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.

Beau Willimon

It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.

Bill Paxton

I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.

Bjork

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Bob Kerrey

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.

Boy George

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.

Brendan Gleeson

I'm not that flashy in private; I'm usually pretty reserved. But on stage, it's about not being afraid of anything - of anyone judging you. It's one place you can be free. So why not sing as loud as you can, hoop and holler and jump around? A show is a moment. When it's done, it's over. I find that extremely liberating.

Brittany Howard

'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.

Carl Honore

Well working by yourself, especially when no one knows about it, is totally liberating because it's very impulse-driven. You work when you want to work. You work when you can work. No deadlines. No conversation. No compromise. No help.

Caroline Polachek

Facebook seems to think that it would be liberating if everyone's News Feed could be personalized so that people see only and exactly what they want. Don't believe it. That's a prison.

Cass Sunstein

The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

The things that motivated me at 21 don't suffice. Which is scary but really liberating in a way. It's taken me a long time to feel like, instead of being invited to the party with a bunch of people I don't know, that I actually deserve to be here.

Chris Pine

I've heard rumors about myself that are true - and nobody likes that. But there's actually something very liberating when you hear a false rumor because you realize there's nothing you can do. People are going to say whatever they want - especially on chat boards.

Christian Borle

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.

Clifford Geertz

I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.

Colman Domingo

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

Conan O'Brien

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

Corey Hart

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

Daniel Craig

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

Dave Eggers

Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally competitive and modern economy.

David Blunkett

Your children live or die without you. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It's a devastating realization, but liberating.

David Sheff

Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.

David Shields

Aging followed by death is the price we pay for the immortality of our genes. You find this information soul-killing; I find it thrilling, liberating.

David Shields

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

David Whyte

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

Deborah Moggach

I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.

Diane Paulus