Quotes About Self-expression

I realised that you have to be honest. When you're being open, that's when people connect with you. You just have to be yourself.

To be honest, I think I have a nice voice. A good voice... and I loved recording.

To be honest, I came up with the Carmella character completely on my own.

To be honest, I'm selfish as an artist. I'm doing what I want to do and what I want to hear.

Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it?

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Like most people, I wanted and still want to live by my own rules.

I hope to inspire others to be confident in their own skin and to love themselves with makeup or without.

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

I did make a lot of my own clothes. I used to love to sew, so I made my own shirts and bell bottoms and modified my own clothes, which is what we did during the punk period.

I think it's so important to love who you are and be comfortable in your own skin.

When I was on 'The View,' I went backstage to Whoopi Goldberg's dressing room, and she told me, 'People are going to love what you do, and people are going to hate what you do, but you have to keep doing it. You have to stand up and do what you know is true, despite what people are going to say.' And I'm taking that into every aspect of my life.

When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.

Players have numerous opportunities to express themselves with all the platforms that exist today. So, you know, standing for the national anthem we believe is a part of their responsibility as players in our league.

'Beautiful' is a freestyle, actually. I actually made 'Beautiful' being like, 'I just want something to post on Instagram, like, I don't care, I'm just gonna throw something up today.'

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

I'm today's woman, candid and a woman of substance.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

Sometimes you leave the house for school, and you realize you're wearing the same thing as your toddler, which is embarrassing! I try to avoid it at all costs.

I was always being told to calm down, to chill out, to slow down. I was a bad toddler, I was a bad child, I was a bad teenager.

My message to women is it's okay not to toe the party line on every issue. You don't have to be a puppet or a mouthpiece for your party on every issue. You can be an independent thinker; you can take it issue by issue, and that's okay. You shouldn't be told, 'You can't sit with us.'

So many people always fear tattoos because they don't want to limit themselves from certain jobs. I clearly never let that stop me and just got covered head to toe.