Quotes About Self-expression

Don't try to walk in someone else's shoes - literally and figuratively. Wear what you feel confident in.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

The reason why I started the clothing line Licious is because I had trouble finding clothes for my body type. I figured if I'm having trouble finding clothes for me, being curvy, I know girls with my body type are probably facing the same issue. And so with the help of my designer, I came up with the idea of creating my own clothing line.

I like clothes. When I realized as a child that you had to wear them, and it takes the same amount of effort to look good or not, I figured out long ago that I only wanted stuff that I loved and looked good in.

I've definitely met some people that cultivated a masculinity that they taught themselves. I don't know how they figured out how to do it, but I couldn't.

I feel like in my senior year of high school, I had my clothes a lot more figured out. I had my hair figured out.

I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.

But when I'm nervous, I deflect a lot and it's very easy to fill the space with jokes.

You can't live in someone else's shoes; you've got to branch out and fill your own shoes.

I would never try to fill John Lewis's shoes. I can only be myself - my authentic self.

It's really weird, people love filming, they love being on camera.

Share your personality with interviewers, but keep a professional filter safely adhered to it.

Even if you don't think you filter your life on social media, by its very nature you're only showing part of yourself.

People have told me I've got no filter or I'm a bit of an over-sharer.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

You know, I'm speaking for myself. I didn't like to have to speak filtering for what I thought somebody else would or wouldn't want me to say.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.

Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.

Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

Every woman is confident in her own way, and it's all about finding what makes you confident.

My goal with the makeup line was that you wouldn't have to use brushes. Fingers are my favorite thing.