Quotes About Self-expression

I'm having fun playing with clothes now. I didn't used to appreciate the clothes as much when I was modeling. It was a job.

I'd rather just be who I am and get the kind of movies that I want or the kind of modeling jobs I want based on who I am, really.

I love modeling, and I want other girls to enjoy the experience.

At 14, I was modeling, which helped me come out of my shell, but I always dreamed of theater school.

Modeling really helps me find my confidence and break out of my shell.

I think one of the secrets to modelling is the less you care and the more you're yourself, the more successful you are.

If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.

I have to be more modest now that I'm a mama, but I loved those days when I could really wear what I wanted to. I do love crazy shoes and clothes. But I mean, come on, I'm 38, so even if I like a dress of Betsey Johnson, I have to say, 'Stop it. Go for Chanel!'

I am a birthday person. I am not modest about birthdays.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

It's easy to think you have to fit some kind of mold.

It was me that was holding myself back because I felt like I had to fit into this mold of what people want to see.

I always say I never felt 'latched' to a gender. I just kind of always felt like myself, and I never felt like I had to do certain things or be a certain way to fit into a certain mold.

I am always personalizing tees to fit my personality, cutting off rocker shirts, debunking the mold of what traditional 'work wear' means, and always wearing my cause.

My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.

I'm a beauty guru, I just love all of that stuff. We have a makeup artist for 'Dance Moms' that touches us up and stuff, but I love doing my own makeup; sometimes I do my friends', too. My favorite is doing eye shadow and eyeliner.

Moms can be fresh, fly and young, and that's the kind of mom I want to be.

We moms are beautiful both with and without makeup, but I always love classic colors I can mix with anything.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

I was about 29 or 30, and I started writing monologues for myself. I felt I got more immediate encouragement from that than I ever had in acting.

So my reason for doing drag, at first it was because I wanted to express this thing I had kind of stored deep down inside of me and now that I've let this thing loose, this monster out into the world and I kind of got that out of my system now.