Quotes About Individuality

I don't want to be just a performer.

All you have to offer as a performer is yourself.

By nature, a woman is independent though she can have bindings. But, she is a lone performer.

As an artist, you want to form your own identity and be your own performer.

I've been in a lot of different factions my whole career, and all the guys who made up those factions are different performers. For example, if you look at the Undisputed Era as a whole, I'm very different than Roderick Strong, who's very different from Kyle O'Reilly, who's very different from Bobby Fish.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

When we came up, groups and bands and performers were interested in being their own thing. They wanted to make sure that they had their own identity.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.

Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

For a lot of actors, there's a sort of code of honor around playing something other than yourself, which I just don't have. I love feeling like I'm - I won't even say acting out, but performing in some deep seam of my consciousness or my family's consciousness or my past. That's really amusing to me.

I think it's important for people to be themselves and express themselves through their makeup or their hair or their perfume or whatever it may be.

I don't wear perfume, and I don't like the air to be too saturated with scents.

I always felt like a girl. My parents in New Jersey weren't exactly encouraging, but my grandmother was very open-minded. She had lots of costume jewelry and a big chest of purses and things, and she would let me play with all of it - even her makeup and perfume. She just didn't care.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to have no connection with me. Perhaps because the name is quite common, it never seems to fit me, or fit me alone. Nevertheless, when I see the name, I always feel a peculiar sense of shame.

One resists categorization at one's peril.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.