Quotes About Self-expression

I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.

Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things Ive learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think Im the only one that does that

Bring on all the pretenders!

Your lucky enough to be different, never change

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

People resist being put into categories.

The lesson was clear and I learned it well: blind acquiescence was necessary to gain approval; being yourself only earned condemnation.

When I was growing up, in this country, I would use the name Hillary and in Spain, I would use the name Hilaria.

When you look at me, you can't really tell what I am, but I'm black, white, Native, Spanish, and a little bit of Filipino.

I'm not too bad at reading, but I've got a bit of a confidence problem with speaking, with going from Scouse to Spanish.

Growing up, I was trying to make it in music. I was grinding, which is just what I loved doing. I didn't have nothing else to do. In my spare time, I'd record myself. Find a beat, pulling em up. Just making something and creating for me.

When I was younger, there was that desire to be cool and to fit in and to look a certain way. And I was quite an introverted kid who wrote plays in her spare time, so I didn't feel very cool.

My life is fancy dress, so I prefer not to do it in my spare time.

I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

I am an Irish Catholic person. I've been a man and a woman. I speak Russian, sort of. And then I'm very diplomatic.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

It's become easier to speak up for myself.

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

I let my life, and success, speak for itself.

I always wanted my work to speak for itself but I realized you have to show people a little bit of yourself and interact with them, especially before your film releases.

My early years as a 'speaker' involved note cards that shook like a leaf while I held them because I was so nervous.

I am not a public speaker and never will be.