Quotes About Self-expression

I think I have started to take life as it comes and quite uninhibitedly, without being repressed by the expectations of the society.

I just wanted a change. My hair started hurting my back, so I went to my hairdresser and said 'Take it off.' And I'm delighted with the results.

If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.

I have learned to do what I want without hurting anyone. I've learned how to get away with it, with everything. I'm getting away with what I'm trying to do on film but also in my own way.

Hey, if something is making you feel good, and it's not hurting anyone else, does it really matter if others believe?

As long as I'm not hurting anybody, I don't think that anything I do is wrong.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

Just think Beyonce on ice, honey. That's me.

I don't think I'm in any way an icon, to be very honest.

I grew up with Madonna as my icon and she was someone who didn't conform to any rules.

I always felt ,like, I'll leave autobiographies to the people who are kind of iconic.

I don't have a lot of style icons. There are not a lot of people today who I look to.

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.

There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

I think it's very important to do things the way you want to do them and be true to yourself, your own goals, and your own ideals.

When I dance, I look almost identical to Beyonce. And I mean identical. In many ways, when she becomes Sasha Fierce, she's actually just becoming me.

I certainly wanted Hedwig's world to be one where identification and categories are fluid, changing, and confusing, as they are, really, in life.

I do not think that my life starts and ends with films. I do not use my profession as my identification.

I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don't like being identified as female: I'm a person.

I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

I like guys, but I also identify as a guy - if that makes sense.

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

It's a lot of fun to identify with a character who lives by their own rules.