Quotes About Individuality

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

Every single project deserves a different approach.

For the longest time I was trying to please others. I can blame the whole world for each film that went wrong but if I'm not happy about a project I cannot give my best.

Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.

You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.

I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their aesthetic is, what they're projecting. And I look at my own work and I think, Who could ever decipher what the hell is going on?

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.

I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

I actually don't do much to my hair. It gets fussed over a lot on projects because there's a lot of it, and it's boy's hair, but as far as me, I tend to let it do what it wants.

When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.

Don't try to stand out that much for prom. Be yourself.

I didn't grow up the popular girl or the popular cheerleader. I've never been to a prom, I didn't have a lot of boyfriends, so I'm used to being on this side of life.

You're supposed to go to prom during high school. I don't go to high school. I homeschool.

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

In high school, I had a singing group, and I designed the outfits and made my friends' prom dresses.

I was so big, so I had to always come up with my own creations. Like, when I would do junior prom and stuff, I would have stuff specially made or added to my outfit. I definitely was always into trying to do something a little over and beyond.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.

My eyebrows - they have a life of their own. I don't arch them on purpose; I don't do, like, arching exercises or anything, I promise!

I promised myself that I wouldn't be afraid to be who I was when I chose to do this music thing.

The first time that somebody handed me a sheet of paper with a promo on it, it was like a 'throw up in your mouth' kind of moment. And it's not, like, their fault, you know? It's not the writers' fault. But if was my world, there would be no written promos; there'd be no scripts.