Quotes About Self-expression

What more crime can a woman commit by suffocating her sensuous body behind the tight dress. Stay Nude, Breathe Life!

One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.

I think some people just can't handle people who go about their life genuinely not caring about what other people think.

You know what? Who cares what normal is, Simone. Let's protest. From now on we're the anti-normal, anti-average, anti-standard. You can eat when you want to, I'll wear what I want, and we'll die with a packet of chips in our hand and a tablecloth on our head.

Not at all. I mean, yeah, you're weird by teenage standards. But weird in a good way. I mean, it's your life, your liver, your brain cells. It's weird not to respect choice. Whether you're choosing to get pissed or go sober, or get high on weed or chocolate, everybody's gotta make their own choices.

You have the power to define yourself — remember that power; take that control. It's like a superpower, really, to be whom you want to be, to do what you want to do, to fly where you want to fly. Your life will get more complicated, but think of it as a great adventure, every damn day. You're going to have fun.

I find that there is no speech that is not soliloquy. And yet, always, I sense an audience.

We live our roles better than our own lives.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Excuse me, but what kinda black lady are you?" I smiled, looked at her, and said, "The kinda black lady that you wanna know.

There was a time when everybody was busy doing, 'What is she wearing? How is she looking?' I am happy that is changing now.

I'm competitive but I'm not butch.

I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.

Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!

I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.

I love buying hair clips.

I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me.

By the time I went to college, I had totally embraced my Indianness, but I still didn't tell anyone I could sing.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

Honestly, I am not a huge beauty girl, so I'm pretty low-maintenance, California.

More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the planet. I can be who I am there, and I couldn't do that anywhere I lived as a child. I never fit in when I lived in California, even though that's where my roots are.

With theatre, I found that one thing that I am good at and it gave me so much confidence. I feel like I have found my calling and that's how films happened to me as well.

I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and same-sex marriage, then they should be true to who they are, and I think that the world could benefit by more love.