Lisa Edelstein Quotes

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

In my own writing, I tend to be very honest, and my goal is to identify something people think but are afraid to say. That's not the general cultural expectation of women.

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

I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.

At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!'

I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office.

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.