Quotes About Self-expression

I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that's not the conventional definition of hiding.

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

Social media forced us to look at the bigger picture. More people are standing up saying, 'Hey, wait, this is beautiful, too,' and the fashion industry is listening.

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

I'm the guy that stands out in all the crowds, so I don't get out there and dance, but I can dance.

Every girl needs a pair of Miss Me jeans for that extra boost of boldness and fearlessness for whatever situation stands in their way.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

I just want to be someone who stands up for being herself.

I think it's important to remain true to myself, but ultimately the Miami Heat and what it stands for is part of me. It's part of my fabric.

It's inspiring to play a woman who stands up for herself.

I just fight like myself. I'm like a cat - if I see the opening, I'm going to shoot for it. I think what stands out is my accuracy.

Katya Zamolodchikova

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

A man can certainly be a Muppet. Being a Muppet is a state of mind. It's about finding that little part of you that's unique, and not being embarrassed by it, but cherishing it.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses

I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.