Quotes About Self-expression

I'm a free bird and I follow my own rules.

At the end of the day, I'm my own person.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

I enjoy being an actor in my own movies.

I'm not a big fan of the WWE coming over into our sport and everyone making a show of themselves. It's not that, it doesn't bother me, its good for some guys, but that's just me, its not my personality, I told myself a long time ago I'm not gonna sell myself out, I'm not gonna sell my soul to be something I'm not.

Really, those 60 minutes when I am on the field is my time to enjoy myself, and I don't have to worry about anything, play the game that I love.

When I get dressed, I don't think about what other people think. I only think, 'Is this me? Is this my truth? Am I able to move through this world with confidence? Am I able to move through this world feeling that I am I?'

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

I'm being myself when the camera is rolling.

Everything I do, I do it being myself.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

I think I'm just always myself, and I think that's what's most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.

Creative freedom and self-expression is what MySpace is all about.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

The shaved head with which I returned to university in my second year was meant to give me a new air of mystery and menace. It did not.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

The biggest beauty myth is that everyone looks better without makeup. That's not true. Makeup is important.

I don't have to mumble something under my breath when someone asks me what I do anymore. I can just say, definitively, 'I'm an author.' And the best part? That's not a myth. That's just the truth.

I love a bit of nail art, I'm a girly girl.

My Nana Gladys never left the house without lipstick on; she always had matching nails and lips.

I have been getting glitter-dipped nails for ages and love them.