Quotes About Self-expression

I'm a horrible dancer, but I wanted to record songs that made me want to dance.

I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write - I have a 'story by' credit on one film I did. And I don't want to edit at all.

I am not a clothes horse.

I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'

I love to sew in the hotel room. I even sew in the locker room sometimes.

You can go the route of not living your life at all - and a lot of actors do that, where they just won't even go out of the house at all - but it makes life so unenjoyable. You can't go out, you can't hold hands with your girlfriend, you can't do any of these things.

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

While other people were dreaming of big cars and houses, I just wanted a huge dressing room.

I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.

The 'Housewives' has helped me find my voice. I was always a people-pleaser, and coming into a show like this, you end up losing that.

I'd always sing 'Greatest Love of All' by Whitney Houston. I just want to make clear, though, you know those people on 'Star Search' who are the little 7-year-olds that sound like Christina Aguilera? That wasn't me.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

A lot of people liked 'Amala,' and that's great. However, I don't think it was a finished album.

I feel most glamorous in tight-fitting dresses that hug my curves, and the highest heels.

I like Oribe mousse; however I don't use too many hair products. I'm a huge fan of bandanas and hats.

A huge part of my identity is being a woman, and that's really important for me, and that's a big part of my self-expression, so I think it's really interesting sort of exploring what it means if someone doesn't have that.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

It's not a good feeling to hide a huge part of your life. If you were meant to be somebody else, you'd be somebody else, so don't change who you are.

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

Most of all, I want to be known as Barbi Benton, the singer, not as Hugh Hefner's girlfriend.

All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.

The Funkasaurus character was great and it taught me about being humble, about the character, about not being concerned with what people think you should be.

I believe in myself enough to not get hung up on what other people are doing, or what I should be writing, or the nature of how I'm writing. I'm just able.

It's a strange business, speaking for yourself , in your own name, because it doesn't at all come with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject. Individuals find a real name for themselves, rather, only through the harshest exercise in depersonalization, by opening themselves up to the multiplicities everywhere within them, to the intensities running through them.