Peter Hedges Quotes

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

I think I am more liberated as an artiste in my late 40s.

I have a sense of mission in a way. I've always worked on being free, as a woman and as an artist.

All of my experiences modeling, acting, doing theater, it's all in the work now. And the work freed me to transform myself.

My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

There was a time during 'Gone Girl' that I'd come home, and I'd say, 'I get to be every part of being a woman in this role.' For me, I feel it much more as a springboard for the work I'm going to take on thereafter.

Women are coming into their own and breaking down so many boundaries.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

For those of us that were involved from the first days of 'Battlestar,' we were encouraged to give of ourselves and to feel that we had a voice, not just as the character but as part of the family that created the show. It changed me, certainly.

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth.

The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.

That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles.

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

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.