Quotes About Self-expression

I like Colin Wilson, mainly because he never went to school. When you don't go to school you can say anything you want like that and not have to worry.

Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

I just don't want to give them my name and say, 'Do whatever you want.' I am trying to create my brand.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

My sister and I do to what we love to do and do what we want to do, so that sort of started us off having a sense of 'Do this because you love it' not 'Do this because you want to be famous.'

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

When you're young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that's what you want to do, stand out.

Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.

It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.

Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where you don't want to. Be your own men; do what you want, and don't hurt anybdoy

The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.

I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.

When in doubt, wear what you want to wear. Not what you think the dress code is.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

I don't know how I want to come across looking, really. I just look how I am.

If someone wants to make a joke about me smoking too much pot, I'm not going to get mad at them, because I've put it out there that that's what I do.

It's my birthday, I'll get high if I want to.

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be.

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.