Quotes About Self-expression

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.

I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider - anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.

Clothing, and the products that you buy, are really about how they make you feel.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

I don't think I was ever cut out for a 9 to 5 white collared profession.

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.

What I like to wear, I do myself. I don't know how that sounds, but it's the truth. My life is so mixed with my profession that I don't know where I begin or my work ends.

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.

For me, acting is something I am passionate about. I am someone who wants to be known for who I am. If I wanted to just make money, I would've chosen some other profession.

I don't act to prove anything to anyone. I like acting. It is the only profession I know.

People know me only from the Octagon, from the gym. I'm a different person outside and I am who I want to be.

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

Everyone's bodies are different, and we all have different shapes, but it has nothing to do with who you are.

As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.

When I was growing up, I didn't really have a lot of different things I could wear. As I got older, the more I could look different on an everyday basis, the better.

What is the point of me changing? If I became another person, it would be bad. If I acted in a different way with my friends, they would not be happy. It's important I stay the same.

For a lot of people looking at a 19-year-old model, there's a feeling that 'I can't pull that off.' But there's so much you can pull off if you can find the confidence to look at fashion in a different way and make it unique for yourself.

Some people go to the gym and some people have different ways that they express themselves, and I do all mine through my music.

Different women feel empowered in different ways, and it's not right to tell someone what they can and cannot do.

Ive never had a perm; I used to have it straightened with a hot comb, back in my 'A Different World' days.

Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.