Quotes About Self-expression

If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It's like I need eight hours to do two hours' work.

I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and that wasn't really the story that I ever was interested in telling.

I mean my mother always wanted us to be individuals. She always instilled that into our brains which was incredibly painful for an adolescent to deal with.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

For some people, makeup is their war paint; that's putting their best foot forward. Others feel better with no makeup. It's so personal - who are we to judge?

The '90s weren't my finest years artistically. I wrote some good songs in there, but in terms of my vision of getting the paint on the canvas, that was not my best time. I didn't like the fact that I had fallen into mediocrity.

There's so much power in the idea of becoming monstrous. I think we see that in the way some women and girls choose to adorn themselves now. They don't care about being pretty or palatable. They paint their lips black, dye their hair green, file their nails into claws.

I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out.

I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

I am not an artist. I am not a painter.

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.

If I had my way, I'd wear jewelry, a great pair of heels and nothing else.

I feel most comfortable in an old pair of jeans, Converse, and a man's jersey. My best friend cuts my hair with kitchen scissors.

I don't remember a day where I didn't own a pair of Vans or Chucks. I just try to wear what I feel comfortable in.

There's nothing like a good pair of heels.

You won't often find me in a pair of killer heels: my heel height doesn't rise above two and a half inches, as I would just fall over!

I love a great pair of shoes, and as long as I feel like I can walk in them, I can dance in them.

The first picture of me that I know of was me in the crib wearing a pair of cowboy boots.