Quotes About Self-expression

I've been taught through life experience that, like, I'd better open my mouth and quickly define myself in a new space and with new people because, if I don't, I will be defined.

I want to show everyone that you can do what you want, don't be afraid to try new things.

I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role because, of course, it's really not me.

I'm constantly trying to find new ways to get my hair out of my face.

I don't think I constantly have to be on a promotional spree or be seen in the newspapers every day or even be part of social parties and film gangs. I'm having my own set of journey, and I am happy with it because I don't want to be like everybody.

I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.

I'm not going to be the next anything. I'm going to be the first me, and someone's going to follow, and then they'll be the next me.

I kept buying bucket hats. Next thing I knew, I felt like I didn't look right without one.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

I am a nice person. I'll put that out there.

If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while.

I still am very street - I just have nicer clothes. I'm not ashamed of that.

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

Since 'Madalsa' in Malayalam turned out to be a little disapproving, I decided to change it to Mithi, my nick name.

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.

I don't have a nickname and I'm not looking for one.

I just want to be Diego Sanchez. I don't need a nickname. I'm me.

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.

When I go out, I'm not going out to find a man; I'm going out to dance the night away with my best friends.

I think I always knew aesthetically what excited me the most, and I think I was always looking for that aesthetic in other people and it didn't really happen. I decided to take it upon myself to be the change I wanted to see in nightlife.

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

I was every mother's nightmare - I was a hair model from 14, and I started coming home with red, blue, green hair.

You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.