Quotes About Individuality

I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.

I was the person, I think, who first said the evening of September 11 that we shouldn't hold this against the Arab community, the Muslim community. We should focus on the individuals and that groups that were involved and not participate in group blame.

People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.

I don't want to just model. Anyone can do that. I've let myself be in magazines in the past without participating as much as I should have.

I don't write for a particular audience.

I believe that everyone has to construct a mental model of what they are and where they came from and why they are as they are, and the word soul in each person is the name for that particular mish-mash of those fully formed ideas of one's nature.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.

I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl's girl.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

I didn't particularly like being objectified.

I didn't go to parties or anything like that.

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

From my childhood, I am like this. I never go parties and attend functions.

I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.

I don't go to parties in general.

I don't like to go out to parties or clubbing, and I kind of like my anonymity.