Quotes About Self-expression

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

...you are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be with that person.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.

Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

What makes you good looking is how you are expressing yourself and that comes from how you are interpreting life.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.

No one gets to tell you what your life means!

It's the only real advantage to getting older. You get to say what you mean and stop apologizing.

What's the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you're faking.

I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner v

I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Imitation is suicide.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live.

The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.

If you show life that isn't yours you are wasting your time without knowing it. Let people see for themselves.

Many of us live the lives to follow others dreams, we rarely create and follow our own imaginations and dreams.

If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality.

I'm not made to fit into the society's definition of me. I've got freedom to define myself. You too, if you know!