Quotes About Individuality

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

Don't hole up in your apartment and just write jokes, be a real human being and develop your own voice. Then you will be undeniable.

We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There's an inherent contradiction.

I did sing a track for Dhanush's '3,' but that's because the track required a voice like mine.

For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself.

I was an outsider. I looked different, and I felt really voiceless as a kid.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

I've always been an idiot, so doing voices and being a goof has always been a part of who I am.

I think original voices get noticed. But most importantly, I think you should have a story to tell.

We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

I established early what I was and wasn't willing to accept. People tried to say what I had to do, whether it be pop or R&B, to be successful. Even when I was in the girl group, they would try to make our voices sound very radio-friendly and fit that mold. But even before I got signed, I knew who I was and who I wanted to be.

When I heard Billie Holiday's voice, Nina Simone's and Ella Fitzgerald's - there was something about their voices to me that was such a different texture than what I was used to listening to at the time. Hearing those jazz voices were so different, and I think I just gravitated toward it.

We all tell our own stories the way we live our lives. My story is: Life is too short to not believe in fresh voices. I don't have Hollywood stars. I have great American artists.

I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism.

'Cloud' and 'Flower' are very much egocentric about my own expression. 'Flow' is more utilitarian, and 'Journey' is more about collaboration between various creative voices in the team.

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

When you're with your partner, I think, does everyone else sing and do the stupid voices and all that stuff that I do and always have done?

Be authentic, true to yourself, genuine. Question what you really love along the way. There are so many voices out there. And you can lose yourself.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason.