Quotes About Individuality

The reason I choose not to speak about my husband is because the press is prone to erase the individual identities of women who work in the industry. I don't want that to happen to me.

When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.

I am a chilled-out person. But if people call me by my name, I hope they pronounce it right. I get called Baron, sometimes Varun, and my surname is often changed to Sobit.

My last name is difficult to pronounce. It's Toussant.

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

I don't pronounce all my words exactly how they do on the BBC. I am who I am.

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

I don't want to play a prop in a film.

I would never want to be treated as a prop, to be looked on as an object just because of my gender.

I am no glamorous prop waiting to be presented as a showpiece in a film. Filmmakers have to look beyond that.

Rather than being a prop in a film with big actors, I would love to do a meatier and more meaningful role in a film that does not feature a big actor.

If anything, who I am and my background helped propel me and helped me stand out.

It's fun to be blond, and it's almost difficult to remember how I used to look with my proper hair color.

I really don't care for the proper chef coat.

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

Some days, I want to be prim and proper, and others, I want to be in a band.

I think girls especially get so caught up in thinking like, 'Oh I have to be prim or proper or fun and sunshiny' when, like, you can be literally anything. You can be mannish; you can do whatever, and it's acceptable.

The first time I made any money, I was 27. I went to Bergdorf's looking like a proper guttersnipe and bought a pair of Louboutins. I'd wear them and an old ink-stained kimono and make my drawings and feel indomitable.

Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.

I make very proper clothes. But I was never that person. For a long time, I thought that was the image I needed to have for my brand. And I thought that's the person that I needed to be. Because it gave me a distinct image that no one can deny.

I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.

Sometimes people think that I'm maybe pretentious or just weird, a fraud, or fake, because I have a formal education and speak properly and give people respect.

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.