Quotes About Self-expression

I can do what I want. And I always do, do what I want.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

While you're pregnant you're made to feel not beautiful or sexually viable. You're either sexy, or you're a mother. I didn't want to have to choose, so I challenged that.

We want them [senators] to be themselves, and I told them, be yourselves and say what you want to say. Don't worry about me.

Socks may eat wherever they want to.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

I do what I love to do. I have awesome people who let me make the choices I want to make. I navigate things by whether I want to play a part or not, to be honest.

I don't think I've ever changed. I am only one person, it's just me. I'm confident and I'm quite happy with who I am, but it's my life and I'll be what I want.

I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

Leave me this freedom … to do something. To do a thing … a thing that does not destroy, but creates. Please, can I not be more than I am? Please. Do not find me.

She enjoyed being invisible, imagining herself as a three-dimensional linocut - the empty space, the bit that's cut out.

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

Nero wanted only to be an actor; Commodus, to be a gladiator; and young Antoninus Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to be Venus!

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

As I stand by the sea, I can learn from the sea. No one can demand of the sea that it bears all our boats, or of the wind that it continually fills our sails. Likewise no one has the right to demand of me that my life should be captive to performing only certain tasks. Not duty above all, but life!

You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great. If they don't, that's their problem.

a gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say..

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like or love you, that's great. If they don't, that's their problem.

Mimesis is darkness, create your own light, the brighter inner light, the brighter it shines

I was not afraid; only fascinated, confident to that he was my own creation.

Daniel took off his tie, loosened his shirt collar. He didn't like Owen seeing him in uniform. It made him feel young and conventional.

I can assure you I'm now always fully of my own bizarre and unique magnificence.