Quotes About Self-expression

Don't try to fit in or stand out - just be yourself.

I grew up being very different and being ready to fight people. I wanted to stand up for myself, and I wanted to not let anyone think they know me based on appearances, so I was always just fighting back with people.

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

It's really important for us as a band, that when someone is giving us grief on stage, to show our fans how important it is that they stand up for themselves and that they feel confident in themselves.

I was so shy, I couldn't stand up in front of people and speak. Now I'm in the next big three Bollywood movies.

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

I've been a homosexual all my life. My partner and I don't want to stand up and say we're gay, because we think that's wrong.

You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.

At Evergreen you can create your own major and your own classes. So I actually studied stand-up comedy.

I yam who I yam; I'm not somebody, like, standard.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I'll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

I know I'm fly - don't get me wrong. But I don't look, like, standard Hollywood. As a comedian, it's something you learn to use.

I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.

I stand firmly to the fact that you shouldn't have to change who you are to fit into any beauty standards or to be recognized in your job or to move forward in life. You should just be yourself.

I want to break standards.

For a couple of years, being professional, I kind of questioned myself. Should I wear my false lashes or take the time I want to take so I can feel good when I go out on the field? Because nobody else was really doing that. And I thought, No: I'm not going to change what I believe I should look like to fit anybody else's standards.

It's nice to stand out and not have to conform to all the beauty standards that just don't even make sense anymore.

To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.

Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

I'm pretty shy. I'm so bad at public speaking. I can answer questions in front of a crowd, that seems to be fine, but standing up there by myself and delivering some kind of speech, I'm the worst. I hate it.

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.