Quotes About Individuality

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

I am an actress, period.

I used to dye my hair different colors and have crazy periods, especially early in my career when I played in Italy.

I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.

I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?

I do wish I could have given myself permission to really name and own the me of me earlier in life.

Labels can be really helpful when we have the autonomy to label ourselves. But when other people label us without our permission, that's when it becomes dangerous.

My whole life I have sort of done my own thing. I rarely ask permission; I sometimes ask forgiveness.

Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.

Our audience isn't One Direction, Katy Perry, Rihanna fans.

When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

The fashion industry may persist to label me as 'plus-size,' but I like to think of it as 'my size.'

The fashion industry might persist to label me as plus-sized, but I like to think of it as my-sized.

One person's car is another person's scenery.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.