Quotes About Individuality

There's no law that says you have to be consistent in your preferences.

I really preferred the characters I could totally create by myself, because I always think of myself as an actor first.

Those that know me know that I'm not 100% in love with commercial pop music. It's not my preferred genre - I don't do squeaky clean pop.

The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own.

I'm an artist. I'm a gay artist. My preferred identity is, 'any of the sort.' My fans like to identify me as 'she,' but I'm comfortable with who I am, I know who I am and it's all fine with me.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

I think everybody feels their pregnancy differently, and for me, I was so in work mode.

It's true what they say, and I am now a firm believer in the fact that every pregnancy is different for every woman!

Of course everybody is different, but if you're having a strong, healthy pregnancy, there's not a lot you can do to hurt it. That being said, we should do as right as we can by our children, but we just need to be a little more forgiving of ourselves and not so much perfectionists because it's hard enough as it is.

I have no problem being full-term pregnant and do not understand women who say, 'I can't wait to get this baby out of me!'

The funny thing is that, for some reason, people think when you're pregnant, you have to start wearing maternity wear and wear flats and look Mom-ish. I don't know exactly what people expect of people who are pregnant, but there's definitely a lot of moms out there that look super fabulous all the time, and I guess that's my inspiration.

I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl.

At the beginning, when you don't look so pregnant, I think it's all about dressing boyish, with jackets and loose layers.

It's no secret I like to dress a bit sexy and body-conscious, and as soon as I was pregnant, it was like it was inappropriate to dress the way that I dress. And that really annoyed me. It's a wrong message that dressing feminine and sexy and being a mother can't go together.

The thing that I hate the most is when people have prejudice - when they see me as the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini and not as Alessandra. That, really, I don't like. I didn't know my grandfather. I am me.

What people think is their individual nature is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. The world can do without this individuality.

Everyone has their own background and some managers are Premier League footballers, international footballers, some of them find themselves getting jobs.

I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.

The idea of what forms your identity and whether you fit in as one thing or another is something that we all think about, and something that's definitely been a preoccupation of mine.

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn't care less what anyone thinks of his appearance - someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal.

There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.

To each his own, but my process of preparation is based on conditions, not opposition.

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!