Quotes About Self-expression

In the characters that I play, I'm so involved in the look; it's very, very important to me. Because how a person presents him or herself to the world, they're saying something about themselves. It's their first form of advertisement.

I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Do what you want to do, and don't feel pressure to do what other people want.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works for me. I don't concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don't conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself.

I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

I don't have to pretend to be someone I'm not and I think talking so openly about my story gave me acceptance that it's ok to be me.

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would've been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I had to write something out of a new place.

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

I could lie and pretend that I hunt and camp, but that wouldn't be me. Clothes? Shopping? That's stuff I like!

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'