Sarah Lancashire Quotes

I'm not going to hold my tongue because society wouldn't want me to say something.

Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.

We live in the public eye, so if one of us makes a mistake, it affects everyone, which makes me think about what I'm doing in life more.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

It is always easy to take a position when society agrees with you. It is hard to take a position that everyone else in society disagrees with.

Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice?

I think controversy is an interesting thing in that it usually goes hand in hand with starting conversations that surround taboo or under-discussed topics that need to be discussed and need to be less in the shadows, in my opinion.

There are voices and they must be heard.

I never really expected "Hurricane" to be censored and banned around the world, but I think the good thing that came from it was that it created a dialogue, a conversation, a debate and a discussion. And that's a great thing. It brought all of us together in a unique way. And it made us look a little deeper in ourselves. I think it's a good thing.

It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.

When people think you are speaking against them as a group, they try to shut it down out here.

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

I want to be able to speak freely about what I believe. There's a lot of people who would actually like to be able to do that but, for whatever reason, they can't.

We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.

To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless