Quotes About Self-expression

Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.

I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.

I've given myself permission to say whatever's on my mind when I'm on stage.

I do wish I could have given myself permission to really name and own the me of me earlier in life.

Labels can be really helpful when we have the autonomy to label ourselves. But when other people label us without our permission, that's when it becomes dangerous.

That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing.

Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

I'm not interested in a persona.

You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

I don't have a persona or anything like that that I'm trying to live up to.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

To me, what the 'Billy on the Street' persona is, is me as a 12-year-old.

Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.

I'm really embracing that very out, very loud, very free persona that I am now but that I didn't get to be in high school.

WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK Some people cower and wince and shrink, owing to fear of what people may think. There is one answer to worries like these: people may think what the devil they please.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

Jangan sebut aku perempuan sejati jika hidup hanya berkalang lelaki. Tapi bukan berarti aku tidak butuh lelaki untuk aku cintai. (Nyai Ontosoroh)

I rock, therefore I am.

We work out our own thoughts in our own words, not to please, not to impress, but to discover what it is that we have to say.