Quotes About Self-expression

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.

I am more than just a label. Why are people so driven to labeling where we fall on the sexual spectrum?

Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other. For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one. So, I'm somewhere in the middle, which - in my perfect imagination - is like having the best of both sexes.

I'm a lesbian. That's how I identify myself, but I think there's a massive spectrum for everyone.

I'm on the autism spectrum. I don't usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

Seeking approval and people pleasing forces you to alter your actions and speech to no longer reflect what you actually think or feel.

In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even without the author's photograph on the back flap.

Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, 'I'm a YouTuber,' then that's easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it's never fine. In front of adults, it's like, 'Ahhhh they're going to judge me.'

Some tell me I'll break my ankle on my high heels - but I live in them. I'm known for doing speed dashes and leaps and bounds in heels. No problem.

It's bloody annoying being shy. I'll spend a whole evening at a party asking everyone else about themselves. I'm not being self-deprecating; it's because I'm too shy to talk about myself. So people come away from the evening actually having learnt nothing about me.

There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am!

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.

As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.

I was best dressed in high school. I always spent my money on clothes.

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.

Leave women to find their sphere.

That whole Wavy Spice, '90s thing, it wasn't who I was or what I saw myself doing in the future.

I'm most comfortable being myself, but I will admit to having an abnormal amount of fun being the King of Spice.

I feel more comfortable performing when I'm wearing something crazy. I grew up in the '90s, so I love a choker and platform shoes like the Spice Girls wore.

I once wore bright orange flares with a Spice Girls t-shirt. Let's hope that's a look I'll never revisit.

The Spice Girls and Fran Drescher were such important parts of my childhood. There was something about them that allowed me to be myself.

I don't want to be like Spider-man or Batman, the do-gooder kind of thing.

I only became interested in clothes when I was in my mid-teens. I'd do things like spike my hair and put on a nice shirt, but I'd hardly call myself fashion-conscious. I just don't have the energy.