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Quotes About Self-expression

I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
~ Marat Safin
You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.
~ Mardy Grothe
I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.
~ Maria Semple
Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.
~ Mary Cheney
I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.
~ Mary J. Blige
Bear in mind that beauty is individual and personal, that the look and feeling you're after is one with which you can be comfortable each and every day of your life.
~ Mary Kay Ash
Wow, girlfriend, you're incompatible with life! And here I thought I was just incompatible with pink.
~ MaryJanice Davidson
I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.
~ Matt Groening
I was so used to living inside my own world that I answered with whatever I had been thinking. If
~ John Elder Robison
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
~ John F. Kennedy
All at once the self pity drained from me. There was life still, there was a typewriter and paper and eyes to see them, and thoughts to keep them alive.
~ John Fante
You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
~ John Fowles
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
~ John Gielgud
You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
~ John Green
I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.
~ John Heath-Stubbs
perhaps because of the way he dressed, I thought of a goth girl named Rachel who had really transformed herself by playing Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)
~ John J. Ratey
He was the kind of guy who was always telling you what kind of guy he was.
~ John Jeremiah Sullivan
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
~ John Knowles
We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us.
~ John Larkin
I wouldn't want to be treading too close behind you with the Pyms and the Fermanaghs in this Lobster Quadrille. You never know, I might wear me brown boots with me blue suit, and that would never do.
~ John Lawton
Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.
~ John Leguizamo
Idiosyncratic types are sustained by the rich inner worlds of their Selves; they may or may not be successful by other people's standards or fit comfortably into the social order, but no matter what others say or convention dictates, they continue to march to their own drummer.
~ John M. Oldham
A person should be wise enough to come up with their own quotes
~ John Maher
Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.
~ John Malkovich