Quotes About Self-expression

I always wanted to stay true to myself.

I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.

No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for hip-hop I wouldn't be doing all these other things.

When interviewing for any job, you of course want to dress appropriately for the position, but you also want to stay true to who you are.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to stay true to who you are. I want to stay as authentic as possible, as that's how we're going with our team.

I always want to stay true to who I am, and if people don't like that, then that's okay. I think fans appreciate when you're genuine and honest, and that's how I try to be through all of this.

You should definitely stay true to your own style.

The most significant thing is to always stay true to yourself. What brought you to where you are will continue to separate you. The thing is to be different.

I stay true to who I am.

It's a challenge to stay true to oneself and celebrate our stories. I do so by continuing to be what I am, continuing to be myself.

Even if you have a problem with me log-rolling down to the ring, I'm going to stay true to myself. I'd rather do it my way than follow someone else's blueprint.

I've always tried to stay true to myself, do things that I like, that I believe are right. That people like it is cool.

Every single day I'm alive or you're alive, we're choosing this life and this persona. We choose to be the stay-at-home mom who loves baking and Pilates. We choose to be a hipster who loves coffee shops and artisan goods. We choose to be a lawyer who runs marathons and only eats organic.

I have evolved over the years, just as we all have, but I definitely have stayed true to who I am.

My fear is that, had I stayed in Jersey, I would have become Snooki because I'm just a bottle of hair dye away.

There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.

A lot of people have told me along the way that my style and the music I do... is unmarketable. But the only reason I'm successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

I like following whatever's right for me at any given time. I could have stayed with Free for 40 years, but it becomes a corporate entity after a while, and once I become locked into it and governed by it and am expected to do a certain thing all of the time, I tend to want to move on.

When I was younger, I was mousey brown and started putting in highlights with each child. By the time I had my third baby, I was pretty much a blonde, and I stayed that way until I was in my late 50s.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

Whatever you feel is right, whether that's moving to a new club or staying to fight for a position, everyone has a right to do what they want to do.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

Of course, you want to be respected by your peers, and you want people to connect to you as an artist, but for me, it's more about staying true to myself and doing something I believe in and focusing on that.

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.