Quotes About Self-expression

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

Don't change yourself to be liked by others.

I go by Kit now… and, just so you know, Katie wants to be called Kat." Jesus Christ. Give me a break…

Loneliness is not about how many people you have around. It's bout whether or not you feel connected. Whether or not you're able to be yourself.

I am the androgyne.

To do something very common, in my own way.

Any woman who has moved from the playing fields of male discourse into the realm where women are developing our own descriptions of the world knows the extraordinary sense of shedding, as it were, the encumbrance of someone else's baggage, of ceasing to translate.

I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

When I uploaded my very first video, I was just looking for something to make me happy. I was confused about what I was doing in my life and had earned a degree that I didn't really enjoy. With that video, I was finally doing something I was passionate about. So it was my way of self-medicating.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Good clothing is a passport to happiness.

When I met people in the past, even before saying hello, I felt like I should explain myself: This isn't who I am!

Always follow your own path.

I've never been the sort of guy who wants to emulate this guy or that guy. I just try to forge my own path.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.