Quotes About Self-expression

I try to give the squad my peace of mind, my experience of big competitions and to be myself.

One of my pet peeves in athleisure today is clothes that make a woman feel square and one-dimensional.

For me, in my auditioning career and my professional life, since I am kind of a big person and since I have a big personality, I often find myself trying to squeeze myself into boxes that are really too small for me, and it ends up not working out.

Even though I know it's not always the case, I associate dressing up with mental stability.

Because I get my hair styled in so many different ways, when I get the chance to be natural and just me as a person and not an actress, I like to have a stable, consistent look that reminds me that I'm me.

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.

Own the stage, command the stage, and don't be afraid to be the best you can be.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

Fundamentally, I was a very shy and quiet person growing up, so it was just really difficult getting up on a stage. It was a perverse career choice really.

Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.

I think the stage is the place where I feel most comfortable and most myself.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

I don't have stage or camera fright but there is a little anxiety while performing in-front of a lot of people.

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

With stand-up you can just be yourself on stage. And ideally, you can't see the crowd most of the time - it's just lights in your face. But I still have had terrible stage fright.

Falling off stages or making out with gross guys isn't something I'm very fond of.

Staging any play is very exposing because, if you are going to do it well, you have to put so much of yourself into it.

I'll come down the stairs, and my parents and sister will be like, 'What are you wearing?'

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: 'Well, perhaps I can show off now.'

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

They did offer me a chance of being a V in the crowd, but it's not my scene. I think they just thought it would be fun for me to do that, but I don't know. I heard that Stan Lee appears in every movie of his.

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.