Quotes About Self-expression

My voice has gotten me everything in my life, not my hair.

You can successfully take a jab at your ex without having everyone criticize you for it.

I wanted to do a summary of my life and career. There's been so many different looks, and so many types of songs that have become iconic, so it was just kind of fun to look back on everything

I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

I'd like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.

My life and happiness speaks for itself.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.

Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

No matter how puny your frontal equipment, don't wear the kind with the giant pads inside. If a guy squeezes them, he will wonder why they feel like Nerf balls instead of boobs.

I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty –- I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people.

I am the center of the story now, Jule said to herself. I don't have to weigh very little, wear very little, or have my teeth fixed. I am the center.

So I was a monster, she thought. At least I wasn't someone's little sister, someone's girlfriend, some sophomore, some girl—someone whose opinions don't matter.

And now, she was walking down the hall with her books clutched to her chest, looking down at the floor while guys called, "Don't hide that light under a bushel!

Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal.

How amazing to be able to play an instrument, Jule thought. Whatever happened to you, whatever else went on in your life, you could look downat your hands an think, I play the piano. You'd always know that about yourself. It was like being able to fight, she realized. And being able to change accents. They were powers that lived in your body. They would never leave you, no matter how you looked, no matter who loved or didn't love you.