Quotes About Self-expression

I'm crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life.

You don't need to be famous to live a life as an artist.

I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.

How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men?

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.

They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends.

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.

Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.

Learn that clothes are there to suit your life, not to run

In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.

If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds of changes or certain kinds of ways of reconceptualizing ourselves.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

Say what you mean, be who you are, and hope for the best.

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others' rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity, and keep a lid on your potential.

I don't try to rap about or emulate the life of another person.

Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.

I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.