Quotes About Individuality

If you have a beard, I would suggest putting glitter on it, because it will make you look fancy.

Sherlock' changed the perception of me. I have these cheekbones and this face that suggest very middle-class or period-drama roles. I want to show everyone there's much more to me than Irene Adler.

To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.

My face is not perfect. Because my nose is not sharp, many people suggested I should get my nose done.

The ladette thing, it's all a bit weird. I never really liked the word as it suggested we wanted to be men. We didn't.

I believe in carrying all the looks that are suggested to me in my very own way.

I absolutely don't write for women - far, far from it. It's so not what I want to do. Some of the writers, who have helped out at the beginning and end of the process - they're all men - have suggested quite feminine subjects they want me to explore. And I'm always, simply, 'No.' I don't want to do diets, don't want to. I just can't do it.

Someone suggested elocution lessons but there is no way I am changing my accent, I'm proud of my roots.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Joni, I admire not only for her music but for her person, because she's a person that really stands out for what she believes in.

Everyone who means well gives advice based on his or her perception. I have realized that while it's important to hear the suggestions, one should only listen to oneself.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.

Every movie that I've picked, from my first film on, has been considered by everyone to be 'career suicide.' And I have an amazing life. I have an amazing career. I work with artists. But I'm not making 'Spider-Man.'

I don't think a lot of people are calling me to play doctors and lawyers, which is fine with me. I can put a suit on, but I don't really like to.

I don't want to look like Daisy Duke every day. I don't want to wear a bathing suit every day.

Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful - that was the '80s, and that didn't help women.

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It's nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.

To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.

Whenever I can put a fresh, clean suit on, I'm like a peacock. That's my most confident moment.

Drag is a chicken suit, and you're very emboldened. Whatever you do or say or fail at or succeed at is attributed to your costume and not you as a person. So there's a lot of freedom.

I don't act. I am the way I am, and choose roles that I think suit my body language.

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.