Quotes About Self-expression

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

We're not the characters that we portray online, and even if we are, we're a 10-time version of ourselves. That's still not us. Most of the things we do, we wouldn't do in person.

I want to portray myself as myself.

To be able to be a good actress and portray other people's stories, you have to be true to yourself.

When it comes to how I portray myself online, I'm trying to be as real as I can and show people every side of what I do and not just put up selfies online of me in full done-up make up and stuff.

For the record, I don't really hate myself, but I do hate the way I portray myself online.

You can pick and choose how to portray yourself.

I never looked at it like I'm one of the most respected, but I always tried to stay to who I was. The way that I am in my music is the way that I am. I'm just not tryna portray nobody but Brad, period!

I'm just being P.J., that's the number one thing, I'm just being me. Like I'm not portraying something or acting or putting on something that I wouldn't put on every day in my life or doing anything that I wouldn't already be doing.

About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black curly hair. That's how I was portraying myself.

I like being me and portraying myself in a certain way that makes me feel comfortable and confident.

I don't know how to pose or anything.

I never did a nude shoot, I always kept myself limited to bikini shoots. This, however, does not mean that I look down on individuals who pose nude for shoots.

People put me in this ditzy, posh and stuck-up category, so it's been nice the public have been able to see the real me.

I think I have got quite a posh Scottish accent. It's funny because I grew up in Oxgangs and Fife.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable posing for a photographer; I was never trained.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

I'm not going to hide my positions to make anyone else feel comfortable.

My style motto is pretty classic: you give off a positive energy when you wear what you're most comfortable in.

I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.

I'm someone very comfortable airing out the stories of my own life. Some people call it narcissism, but for me, the intention is that it will positively affect other people.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.