Quotes About Self-expression

I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.

For my bikinis, the smaller the better. That's how I've always been.

Even if it's just the smallest thing, like what label I go by, I think to find the truth and express it with full confidence.

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one who was like, 'Look at me!' - just trying to get their attention and being a goofball.

I feel there is no prescribed notion about how strong or how smart one should be. I rather believe one should be themselves and be true to everyone.

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I'm just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren't meant to be worshipped at a church altar.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

People think that when they come up to me, screaming things into my ear, that I will respond according to what they want. I'll turn around and smile and take the photo. But I'm not somebody's marionette.

I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.

I'm an open book. I speak to people all the time and generally have a smile on my face. I'm true to who I am, so you can never always smile and be happy.

OK, I don't love the red carpet... You arrive and all the photographers are shouting at you 'Smile!' I'm like: what, you want me to lift my leg and twirl? No.

I don't get dressed for other people. I get dressed for what I see in the mirror. My body isn't for other people's consumption. If I smile when I look in the mirror, then great. Let's start the day.

I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I've done in the past has made me what I am now. Not everyone is going to like what I do, but I look back at everything, and it makes me smile.

I definitely want to continue working in independent films - and big budget stuff as well - but there's a freedom you have when you're not getting paid. It's easier to say no and there's no pressure to please the powers that be. Also I don't have to hear 'flirt and smile more.'

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.