Quotes About Self-expression

There can be a lot of pressure on girls to dress the way they wouldn't normally dress: on social media, at school, among friends.

Through technology and social media, we're able to create an identity online that shows people the face that we want them to see and rather than who they really are.

Social media... I need to get with it. Obviously it's what everyone's doing, but I like the idea of my life being mine. But at the same time, it would be awesome to be able to get into contact with people who admire my work.

All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.

It's social progress to just be you.

I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

I tend to see - socially, I don't tend to be myself in a male role. I don't know any other way to put it.

The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of.

Clothing shouldn't be a societal shackle. It should be art and truth and a way for us to show the world what we want out of it. It's environmental armor.

In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.

Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.

I'm just being myself, honestly. I know society puts it, Oh, this is masculine and this is feminine. I don't put myself in categories.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

If you look good but don't feel comfortable you're not gonna feel good. But don't wear white socks anywhere.

I knew I wasn't going to be any great shakes as an actor - the way I looked, I would play the soda jerk or the friend of a friend.

I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft. That's not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am.

I generally like to wear my hair down, preferably with soft curls. But when I'm having a bad hair day, I like to wear my hair in French braids or fishtail braids.

Acting is kind of gay. It makes you soft. You got all these people combing your hair and putting a coat over your shoulders when you're cold. I don't want a coat over my shoulders!

You need to have one element about your outfit that is imperfect, that says you live in it and you're not letting it control you. I think men and women both need a softness about them with formal wear.

I just feel my sexuality is private. I'm very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I've sold millions of records with my clothes on.

I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy.

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

I always sold other peoples' fashions, so I wore jeans and t-shirts, and I put on what they needed to sell, and I'd sell it. So as far a nurturing my own style, it took me quite a long time to do it.