Quotes About Individuality

There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it.

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

It's really important for us as a band, that when someone is giving us grief on stage, to show our fans how important it is that they stand up for themselves and that they feel confident in themselves.

For me, I've always found people who stand up and spritz themselves all over their clothes very odd. I'm a big bath addict, and I get up in the morning, and I have a big bath. But when I get out, and I'm still hot but fresh out of the bath, that's when I apply scent. I just have it on my bare skin; I never apply it to my clothes.

As a human being, I do feel like it's my right to be able to stand up for and speak on whatever I want.

As an only child, you've got to stand up for yourself.

There's a big difference to when you stand up and sing someone else's song, but when you've actually written the song, you feel like you were a part of it, and you're a lot more proud of it.

For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me.

When you are doing stand up, it is the most glorious hour, when you are an X-Men version of yourself, with lasers coming out of your eyes.

Finding your voice as a stand up comedian means deeply knowing who you are as an artist and a human being.

We're losing the whole point: music is not to impress people, music has to stand up on its own and guitar solos are nothing to do with it.

We're a much different generation now, so I think us girls can stand up for ourselves.

I taught my boys it is easy to follow a crowd. Anybody can do that. It takes a man to stand up for your principles. You cut your own path in life. Chase after whatever your heart's desire is, and instead of following the crowd, let somebody else follow you. That takes a little guts.

You should never hold back in giving your opinion - it's important to always stand up for what you believe in and not just agree with those around you.

I've been a homosexual all my life. My partner and I don't want to stand up and say we're gay, because we think that's wrong.

Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

At Evergreen you can create your own major and your own classes. So I actually studied stand-up comedy.

I yam who I yam; I'm not somebody, like, standard.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I'll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.

In high school, I was obsessed with '60s and mod. It was about the look, and also about not being part of whatever the standard was.

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.