Quotes About Self-expression

You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.

Somebody called me a homophobe. I'm not homophobic.

But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

I am not somebody who would go on holiday carrying designer clothes and only click pictures for Instagram and then chill in my hotel room.

You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else's energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being.

I never want to be like somebody but be my own person, but follow along those lines like a Matt Millen, Michael Strahan. There's so many players that have transitioned to being an anchor or a broadcaster, and it kind of just goes hand-in-hand.

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.

I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.

By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

I love putting on a red lip. I don't do it so much for events - somehow, I don't seem to get it right - but when I just go to the pub or to a restaurant or something, I just put a red lip on.

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

I am not a fake. I am natural. I am just being Caster. I don't want to be someone I don't want to be. I don't want to be someone people want me to be. I just want to be me. I was born like this. I don't want any changes.

You don't have to fit into a mold that someone else has defined.

Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don't, you're living someone else's life.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

LOGAN: ...Izzy could do whatever the hell she wanted. All she needed to do was not give a sh*t about fitting in.

My flaws and imperfections make me perfectly incomplete.

Let's quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we've never really been.

in a crowd of roses, choose to be a sunflower.thornless. unwithering. abundant in seeds

It's the most gratifying thing to have young girls telling me, 'I love that you do a photo shoot in pants and a button up shirt, and you still look cool.'