Quotes About Self-expression

People look the best when they feel the most comfortable, so I buy 10 of the same thing if I really like it.

I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.

But at the end of the day, I'm a girl. I'm from Santa Monica. I'm going to look how I want to look and play how I want to play, and if people don't like it, then they don't like it.

I am an archetype. There's the fat, sassy, black friend, you know? That's an archetype that exists, but that's not truly me.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

It's very satisfying. To perform the way you want to. And the way you know that you can.

I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.

I felt like I couldn't fully be myself and accepted in my family, so I would lock myself in my room on a Saturday night and watch 'Saturday Night Live,' and that was, like, the best thing that ever happened to me.

For high school, everything is about what you wear, how you come to school, and in high school, a lot of people judge you. So fashion is something that can save you - at least, it saved me.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.

CoverGirl putting my face on such an international scale did make a huge leap forward for men in makeup and for boys in beauty and for anybody wanting to express themselves.

Fashion shows scare me, and I've always been a bit more of a scruffbag. I'm not really put together like that.

Art scares me. I don't feel cool enough to be an artist.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

I tell people all the time, I'm Mix-A-Lot. I'm not a rocket scientist.

I've always been a bit scared to say that I'm Scottish because it's almost as if people wouldn't believe me or people wouldn't buy that from me, or people wouldn't accept it. And so now I think nobody has got the right to tell you what you are. You just are who you are.

I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

I always write the script by myself.

At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

I never choose scripts on the basis of whether the girl is like me. I don't want to play myself... I live with myself, and it isn't fun!