It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the struggle for trans individuals to express their true selves amidst societal complexities.
Eddie Redmayne emphasizes the fundamental human right to authenticity and self-acceptance. However, he acknowledges the immense challenges and complications that trans individuals face on their journey to being themselves, reflecting on the societal obstacles that can impede personal freedom and expression.
In practice
In a speech advocating for LGBTQ+ rights.
I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it's custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot.
Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.
Islam has always been a part of America’s story.... And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.
Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't we rather have a destiny to submit to, than, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?
We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.
This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.
We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters
I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me.
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