Quotes About Self-expression

I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

For me, the whole idea of performance is not being self-aware, and then sort of just experiencing.

The thing about black women and black hair is that you just have to experiment.

I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.

I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.

Well, I've always been quite experimental with how I look.

I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that.

I've always believed that makeup is a form of self-expression and there is no shame in experimenting with it.

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

I feel like if I couldn't write, I would explode.

I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.

I realized that there was much more to my voice than I'd ever been led to explore and that I could make my own songs.

I tried to go to college in the U.K. a couple of times, but at that point, I think I was a little disillusioned with education. It wasn't giving me what I wanted it to. I needed freedom to create and do the things that I wanted to explore, and it wasn't really doing that: it was still very prescriptive.

I don't relate to what is seen as 'Arab culture.' I relate to what I explore myself, what is around me.

As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've never explored as an artist on film. I don't see myself in so many characters in film.

The only medium where people are truly exploring themselves and going out to experiment is the digital space.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

I was never very good at marketing myself, I was very good at being explosive and making sense of something in the chaos around me.

I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.