Quotes About Self-expression

I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look. What I didn't know would creep into the portraits was a vulnerability behind the strong facade that most of them wear.

The ideal feminist world shouldn't be one where women suppress their human instincts for attention and desire. We shouldn't be weighed down with the responsibility of explaining our every move. We shouldn't have to apologize for wanting attention, either. We don't owe anyone an explanation.

Powerful women often get concerned with this idea that they're going to be seen in this unforgiving light. Screw that. It's so old-fashioned... It's so uninspired and actually really cowardly.

Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.

There's so many more themes of drag than just fierceness.

I think less is more. Sephora has these nude themes, which is like 'no make-up' make-up.

Be yourself, be an individual - people are scared to be themselves.

People are afraid to be themselves because people are afraid to be recorded. Everything is being recorded, and everyone is so sensitive. You say something; a section of people will be offended. It's so annoying; you got to be completely censored.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because, maybe in their head, what that means is that they're making it for someone who they don't think is real. Their audience isn't real. But it's still a communicative act. It's still an outward manifestation of longing.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.

You don't have to label yourself, because it's not set in stone. It's so fluid, and there's so much pressure on kids to label themselves and say, 'This is what I am; this is what I like.'

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

If people are making fun of you then you're probably doing something right.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I never let people see me without makeup. And it's not an insecurity thing. The perk of being a girl is being able to wear makeup and dress up. It's another artistic outlet. And the 45 minutes it takes me to get ready... is very therapeutic for me. It's hard to start my day without that.

Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

Boxing isn't a career. Acting is it for me. But they're both very therapeutic.