Loretta Swit Quotes

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.

I've always stood for one thing, and that is having freedom, and part of that is the freedom to unapologetically be yourself.

I don't care that people thought I was one way for my whole career because now that I am not attached to a team, I can have my own opinion, I can have my own voice. I can link myself to my own thought process rather than a generic message most teams try to get across.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

It's very nice to be able to be who you are.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

I am the product of living in dictatorships. And someone who's lived in dictatorships and not being allowed to be themselves, it cherishes the ability to be yourself and to have feelings and to speak them when asked. And I am that person.

I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’ s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’ s the most revolutionary insight of all.

There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.

In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

My attitude was, they'd earned the right to do what they thought they had to do with their one square metre of Olympic dais, and I was glad they were doing it, and glad I was with them.

I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.

Let each person have a chance to be who he or she wants to be. Only then can we be considered a truly liberated nation.

I'm not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I'm just getting to be me.

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

But at the end of the day, I'm a girl. I'm from Santa Monica. I'm going to look how I want to look and play how I want to play, and if people don't like it, then they don't like it.