Quotes About Self-expression

Do what you want to do And go where you're going to Think for yourself 'Cause I won't be there with you

You can't do anything to please anybody or say anything to please them or even dress so they'll be happy and give you a smile.

I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other...

Incluso con mis amigas no soy realmente yo misma. En parte soy otra; tratando de encajar, de decir cosas apropiadas, de hacer las cosas requeridas, de estar en el lugar más indicado, de vestir como visten todos. A veces pienso que cada uno trata de ser la sombra de otro; compramos los mismos discos y hacemos como los demás, aunque no nos guste. Los muchachos son como robots, piezas en línea para el montaje, y yo no quiero ser un robot.

Por qué será tan difícil la vida? ¿Por qué no podemos ser como somos y que nos acepten como tales? ¿Por qué no puedo ser yo, sencillamente, tal como soy ahora, sin necesidad de concentrarme, de mortificarme sobre mi pasado y sobre mi futuro?

I would never be on a reality show.

I had one girl send me an e-mail saying she wants to go out with me, but it's like a two-pronged deal because she wants to blog the date. And I'm like, No! I don't want to be on a reality show.

I think what people have to just naturally give me the respect for is the fact that me being a woman and no matter what I've done, fault to mistakes or right to wrong, that I'm able to step out and be like, 'This is who I am and this is who I love to be with. This is what it is, this is my life. I'm on a reality show so you get what you get.'

Music, reality shows, acting, all of them are ways to express my feelings. So I will continue to try to do my best in all those categories.

I love reality TV and everything, and it's something that I truly love to do, and I love the outcome of it; it's like my art. I consider my reality show as my art piece, and it's like a sculpture that I built; it's my baby.

I feel like a lot of people that have been in similar situations as I have, reality TV stars, you can make a packaged version of yourself if you want to - I just don't work that way. I can't do it.

I just want to make a change in the curve industry because I want other curve girls to realize that you don't have to dress a certain way because you are curvy.

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

When I started Giorgio Armani in the mid-'70s, I realized that women needed a way to dress that was equivalent to that of men - something that would give them dignity, an attitude that would help them handle their work life.

I realized I'm not the kind of person who wants to go with the flow and fit in. I'm an agitator, I'm opinionated, I'm a libertine and leader.

I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.

I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

It is really interesting to change your hair color after being blond your entire life.

I'm much too egotistical to move outside the acting realm.

My job was to entertain. I've always seen myself in the entertainment realm.

I grew up on Facebook; it's a different realm I live in. For some people, this is inauthentic, but for me, it's all I know.