Quotes About Self-expression

We don't get to choose our blood families, but we do get to decide how to talk to them, how much to tell them, and how open to be with them about the core of who we are. --Erynn Rowan Laurie

The difference between Sly Stallone and me is that I am me and he is him.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Don't stereotype cause everyone is their type

The only courageous act is to speak in the first person.

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

Obviously, I don't really think my version of a Cha-Cha would actually qualify for a Cha-Cha.

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

I shaved a quarter of my hair one time, and my poor nana was crying when I FaceTimed her, but I was like, 'It's just hair! It's fun.'

It's funny: a lot of roles I do read for mention physical presence - like, 'built like a quarterback' - and for me, it's pretty boring because I don't want that to be the most important thing. I'm not trying to be Dwayne Johnson.

I'm just a quarterback. I'm just who I am.

I am not a drag queen.

I wish I was more like my character. In character, I am the queen. I am strong. I am confident, sometimes cocky. I'm hard to beat. Out of character, I am a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a best friend and just the girl next door that likes Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

I'm the makeover queen. I love to do makeovers on people.

Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.

I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

I am a man who happens to play women's parts. And I'm not a drag queen. I'd like to think that I'm several levels above that.

I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.

I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.

I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.

I very much treat my stage persona of Jinkx as a character I've created. Some drag artists do a look-based glamour act, and when they talk they're mostly just being themselves. In my case it's not Jinkx the drag queen, it's Jerrick Hoffer as Jinkx Monsoon.

I never said, I am just a beauty queen or just an actress.

For all those people who always thought I was nothing more than a drag queen, wait until they see what I agreed to look like in 'Hairspray.'