Quotes About Self-expression

Just let me live my life.

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

Life is about becoming more of who you really are.

All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.

I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.

If you are wearing clothes that you enjoy wearing, everything you do in life becomes fun.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless.

I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

Let me live my life the way I want to.

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

I'm shy. People get confused. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. Why aren't you like this in normal life? Why can't you act in your social life? 'Because I can't!'

I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

Don't just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don't just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life

I like to think that the colors and sounds and words have nothing to do with him, that they're all me and my own brilliant, complicated, buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, godlike brain.