Quotes About Self-expression

I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it.

I'm a strong believer in just doing your thing. No matter what.

I do belong on stage.

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

I want to show who I am, show my best tennis, show why I'm there, why I belong.

I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.

But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

But some things in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

Like being free to think for yourself.

The biggest lie," he said, "is, The Internet is about you.

I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.

I happily played the clown, Because I am a clown.

This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of I. I can't stop it. I'm writing this.

I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.

Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.

You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter," I told her, and she said, "Then I would never utter another word again." "You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do." "Then I would never do anything again.

Everyone has a pipeline through which he pushes what he is willing and able to share of himself out into the world, and through which he takes in all of the world that he is willing and able to bear. Max's conduit wasn't bigger than anyone else's, it was simply unclogged. What

Nobody wants to be a caricature. Nobody wants to be a diminished version of herself.

I think this is why I relish writing for you so much. It makes it possible for me to be not like I am, but as I desire for Little Igor to see me. I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when I perform mistakes, and I can be a melancholy person in matters that are interesting, not only melancholy. When writing, we have second chances

I think that this is why I relish writing for you so much. It makes it possible for me to be not like I am, but as I desire for Little Igor to see me. I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when I perform mistakes, and I can be a melancholy person in manners that are interesting, not only melancholy. With writing, we have second chances.

That's not true, I said, not knowing what the next words out of my mouth would be, but wanting them to be mine, wanting, more than I'd ever wanted anything, to express the center of me and be understood.

Alguien que no se anima a ser quien es por miedo a que lo rechacen, que no se anima a sentir lo que siente porque le parece que está mal, que no se anima a pensar lo que piensa o a decirlo porque tiene miedo de ser rechazado, alguien que no corre riesgos porque no se banca las responsabilidades y que no sale a buscar lo que necesita sino que se lo pide a otro, alguien así no llega a ser una persona y, por lo tanto, vamos a tener que pensar que es un individuo.

Estoy hablando de no vivir temblando ante la fantasía de ser rechazado por aquellos con los cuales no acuerdo. Estoy hablando, finalmente, del coraje de ser quien soy.

La manifestación de aquello que es único en cada ser, en todos los casos y todas las personas, nunca podrá salir a luz con plenitud si antes no atraviesa una etapa de enfrentamiento con el pensamiento ajeno, con la opinión de la mayoría y con la parte del mundo que quiere dejar siempre todo «como está». No hay libertad sin pasar por el proceso de desapego de todo lo que los demás esperan de uno.