Quotes About Self-expression

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

I feel less pressure to dress for the eyes of other people now. I think that happened once I started modelling, near the end of high school.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

It's not a secret - I'm literally one of the best dancers in the world! I mean, not everyone would necessarily agree with that.

I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.

I think I became a gay comedian out of necessity, because what else am I gonna do with that name? And it has worked out now, but it was a very difficult childhood. It sounds like the hokiest stage name ever.

I'd like to have a neck. Everyone else has a neck, but I never got one; I don't know what happened. I'm not asking for much: just some sort of separation between my head and my body would be great.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

I just feel not many people hear that you should feel good inside and feel happy within your soul, instead of needing to look a certain way, so I always try and talk to people about that.

Life is best when lived your way and not as a negation of what you don't like.

I don't really look at myself as a role model. And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me, they do. By no means do I like to give a negative image either.

For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I started to realize we were all born to stand out; nobody is born to blend in.

Just because I'm sassy and have a mouth on me doesn't mean I'm coming from a negative place.

As much as I love make-up and the creativity behind this, the Internet can be a horrible place, and sometimes, with so much negativity and hate, it's hard.

When you're part of a society where you're constantly having to define your identity and sort of negotiate with what the mainstream culture thinks you are, you have less energy and time to figure out who you are when you go home at night.

In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.

I don't consider myself a nerd.

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

If you're a nerd, just be a nerd. That's way better than a nerd who's trying to be a hipster. And if you are going to tell jokes, don't direct them at other people. Not only is it not funny, but it's also mean.