Quotes About Self-expression

I am an Asian woman. I am a size 12 Asian woman. I have been a size 18 Asian woman. I have been a size 6 Asian woman. I have been a size 18 disabled Asian woman.

The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.

Women of all ethnicities, complexions, and sizes want to be able to wear makeup and nice clothes. No one wants to go out and feel like they're substandard or that there's only one mold that they don't fit.

I wear adult sizes but chop off the arms and legs.

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.

I feel like the worst has happened to me, so what better person to skate to 'Madame Butterfly' than me?

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.

For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.

I never felt that I was a leading-man type in high school. I was always the goofy guy who was getting attention from girls who could make them laugh by doing impersonations of, like, 'Saturday Night Live' sketches... I was more James Stewart than James Bond.

I did sketches and had the best time of my life because people were laughing. I was not self-conscious, because they laughed when I wanted them to.

I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it.

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.

I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.

I do feel like I'm at ease in my own skin when I find an androgynous balance.

I'm very comfortable in my skin.

I think so much of what we learn when we get older is being comfortable in our own skin and learning what looks good, and not being so trend-centric.

There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.

I love to see people just being regal in their own skin; it's just when they know who they are.

I don't really care what people think about me or the color of my skin. I'm just playing football.

I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

I'm just more comfortable in my own skin now.