Quotes About Individuality

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I'm not Cinderella.

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

Cinderella is a little edgy and a little rough around the edges.

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

Being in a kids' show... taught me so much about who I am as an individual, and I learned a lot through the writing and different directors that came in, and I evolved as an actress and human being, and I really created a circle of friends who helped shape me who I am today.

I like my little shell. I like my little circle of three or four people that I'm close to. I think that comes off as bad to people that don't really know my personality.

I don't want every member of System to have their own label. It will be like a circus.

I've never seen myself as a second-class citizen.

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

I think most women do not want to be treated as sort of a special class of citizen.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

I'm the last person to claim that I'm sane.

I don't claim to be a fashionista.

To me drag is like a superhero mask.

I'm not really interested in being a superhero. That's not a box I've been trying to check off.

The problem is there are so many stories out there where I can pull that superhero out, put any other superhero in, and the story works the same. For me, that's broken. I have to write a story that no one else but Aquaman or Shazam can be in, and as soon as you pull that character out and out someone else in, it doesn't work.

YI think what's cool about 'Scott Pilgrim' is that it shows that there is a superhero within all of us. There's not one ideal image of what a superhero looks like, and you don't really see that until the end of the film.

People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.

Playing a superhero isn't interesting because then you personify perfection, which is boring!

There isn't just one kind of person that can play a superhero.

But I think it shortsells any idea when you say there's a similar part to something else, like 'aw man, 'The Avengers' is ripping off 'Batman.' You've got people running around in outfits.' Of course, there are outfitted people and there's superhero stuff, but it's not just ripping off 'Batman.'

'Deadpool' is its own thing, and it's very quirky, breaks out the box, and doesn't follow the rules of normal superhero movies, so it was really important for me to show that kids that look like me, who are chubbier than other kids, that they can be the hero they want - it was a dream of mine to be a superhero, and it's come true.

I'm not Andrew Zimmern, who is like a superhero to me. I'm not Anthony Bourdain, who was a superhero to me.