Quotes About Self-expression

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

Natural hair is just my personal preference.

I don't want to say that women who do use makeup or get breast implants or have fake nails are insecure. They're entitled to that, and they should do that if that's what they want to do. But for me, there are no answers. It's just a matter of preference and choice and fetish.

I really preferred the characters I could totally create by myself, because I always think of myself as an actor first.

I'm an artist. I'm a gay artist. My preferred identity is, 'any of the sort.' My fans like to identify me as 'she,' but I'm comfortable with who I am, I know who I am and it's all fine with me.

It's no secret I like to dress a bit sexy and body-conscious, and as soon as I was pregnant, it was like it was inappropriate to dress the way that I dress. And that really annoyed me. It's a wrong message that dressing feminine and sexy and being a mother can't go together.

In The Saturdays we went to a premiere once and we wore these dresses and all I can describe them as is colourful bin bags with bows on. And I knew they were bad at the time and remember saying that I really didn't want to wear them but it was the only option we had. I still look back and I think, 'I knew it at the time.'

The idea of what forms your identity and whether you fit in as one thing or another is something that we all think about, and something that's definitely been a preoccupation of mine.

I was just painfully shy. I couldn't talk to anyone. Going up in front of class, I would have to mentally prepare myself to raise my hand.

I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.' I'm only talking to myself. I'd have liked to be a writer, or a journalist, but if things don't come easy to me I don't do them. I think if you're always thinking how difficult something is, you shouldn't be doing it.

If someone doesn't like something, it's their prerogative not to like it. It's not possible to please everyone. That doesn't mean that I'm going to change my mental make-up. I follow my instinct.

I always wear colored prescription contacts for my looks.

I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best.

I guess the all-American presentation of what a player is supposed to stand for is not what I am.

I loved to sing my whole life, but it was never really - I don't even know how to say it. It was never presented to me as an actual career option.

I was never a boy. I always was a girl in my heart, and although I was presented as a boy to the public, inside I was feminine. It was OK to be that because that's just who I was, and I can't change that. I was born that way.

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

I especially enjoyed some of the old hairstyles, with my hair down to my shoulders and a beard. And Henley's nickname used to be 'Furry Basketball' because he had that fro. It was fun to just look at what was going on in that era and how we presented ourselves on stage.

When I first started, I tried to wear things I thought a 'Countdown' presenter should wear.

Women are tired of 'presenting' themselves; we just want to be who we are.

Part of me is super private, and I'm put in this position where it's scary sometimes because you never know what people are gonna think. It's just making sure that you show what you want to show and making sure that you're presenting your best self always and making the right decisions.

Presenting myself and my gender is about my right to exist.

I quite enjoy getting glammed up and I enjoy picking outfits and things. You have to not really listen to what anyone else says, as long as you feel comfortable, because if you're not, when you're presenting that comes across.