Quotes About Individuality

The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.

I'm not going to be one of those people who says, 'I'm a showrunner; I'm not a black showrunner.' I'm black when I go to sleep. I'm black when I wake up, period. It doesn't affect my perspective on everything, but at the same time, it's who I am, and I'm proud of it.

At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.

You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.

Because if I am someone else for so many months, it affects me, physically, in my brain, in my being. So then I have to take care of that, and make myself more like me again.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

It's not that people want to be like me, but some want to say the things I say and can't because they're afraid. I say it for them.

I am not afraid of being a pariah.

I am African-American, and I am a proud African-American. I just don't like to put myself in a box and say, 'I'm an African-American actress.' I am an American actress, and I can do any kind of role.

I find this western idea that ageing is wrong really distasteful. You should be happy that you look 50, you look 60, you've got to 70 - it should be an achievement.

We are all ageing and eventually we are all going to end up in the same place. It is okay to get older and look older. It doesn't make you any less of a human being or any less beautiful.

For many, hair is just hair. It's something you grow, shape, adapt, adorn, and cut. But my hair has always been so much more than what's on my head. It's a marker of how free I felt in my body, how comfortable I was with myself, and how much agency I had to control my body and express myself with it.

I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda.

As an actor, I don't have an agenda. I don't have to prove a point; I am not a bastion of a particular brand of cinema. I am doing what makes me happy.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

Never agree to say or do anything that isn't you.

Not many people agree with what I do.

I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.

I'm not aiming to be someone like Christina Aguilera.

Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.

There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.

I'm pretty sure I'm a doppelganger for Alan Alda. I'm a trannie; I'm a man.