Quotes About Individuality

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.

I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.

You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically.

I feel like a celebrity is someone who sits and takes pictures with people 'cause they love themselves and how they look and how people look at them. But I just want to be regular and respected for my artistry because music doesn't necessarily have a face.

When you're you long enough, you get to this space where people start respecting you.

I don't have a favorite process. My favorite process is the right process for the person I am working with. I can fit in any process as long as the director respects who I am and doesn't try to put me in a situation to get something out of me - if I can give it without that situation.

I think that, for us, the thing that no one can take away from you is that if you make something that they've never heard before, they're gonna respond to that. They may not love it, it may not be their favourite thing, but no one can take different from you.

I think what people respond to is someone being who they actually are.

In the press, there's this desire for the black audience to be this monolithic thing that always responds to the same stars. That's a really reductive way of looking at the black audience.

I can only do what I do, and if people respond to it, great, and if they don't, that's what that is.

If anyone asks me a fantasy football question or for help, I don't respond.

I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

That's what frees up an actor: when you don't have to be responsible to likability.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

When I used to go to school, the teachers used to say to my mum, 'Hector looks like he's going to a restaurant.' I was just that kid, I wanted to look good.

I'm not trying to be anything other than myself. I appreciate any type of restaurant or cooking, and the main goal is to just be ourselves.

I'm not going to restrict myself as an artist.

I do not want to be restricted to a particular image.

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

My mom just always taught me to let people live, let people be who they are without restrictions, without limitations.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.