Quotes About Individuality

I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'

If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But a car has come to mean much more than that. It has become a powerful statement about who you are and how much you earn.

I thought I was a sexy symbol!

I'd hate to be a sex symbol. Because you're always having to live up to an image. I haven't got time to sit around doing my nails.

I am not a sex symbol of the Broadway community. I know guys who are, and I say, 'Rock it out.' But I'm more comfortable in a different land. I don't know what land it is, but not that one.

I didn't want to be a sex symbol. That was perhaps my mistake, but you can't really change who you are.

For me, I can't play a metaphor or a symbol.

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

I hate when they portray women as just sex symbols in short skirts, running around playing dumb. I refuse to watch such films or be in such films.

You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

I'm a champion for personal differences. I have no sympathy for drug companies that can't figure out how to make personalized medicine. We could generalize that to 'All society should be much more personalized.'

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

I'm not a person who lives for sympathy.

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

Technology means the kind of music you can make on your own if you've got an imagination is amazing. It's crazy that I can sit with a Mac and a keyboard and a mic and create a symphony.

There are many wonderful orchestras in the world, but very few who have a character or personality of their own. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of them, and I think it very important to recognize and respect that character.

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.