Quotes About Self-expression

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence, never be allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Blameless, she gives herself permission To be exactly who she is.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are

It takes hard work to say, "This is how I am," in a calm voice, without anxiously addressing how you should be.

We are encouraged to believe in our dreams, but we are assumed to dream in the same limited palette as everyone else. We are to view ourselves as unique snowflakes only as it facilitates more efficiently melting ourselves into bottled spring water.

I used to admire people who could hang with anything. Now the women I admire the most are women who never pretend to be different than they are. Women like that express their anger. They admit when they're down. They don't beat themselves up over their bad moods. They allow themselves to be grumpy sometimes. They grant themselves the right to be grouchy, or to say nothing, or to decline your offer without a lengthy explanation.

Truly believing that my ideas and words have a right to be taken seriously. And if I believed enough in my talents years ago to own them, who knows what I could've created?

I think most people are really two people, the person on the inside that we keep hidden, and the person on the outside that we dress up and fix up and show to the world as a form of protection.

I feel by posing for Playboy I've discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever.

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

When you are born and put into your crib, the whole world sticks their heads over the tops of the bars. They give you a name and they have all sorts of different ideas about you. … But your task is to become something much more unique and surprising than anyone your parents could ever imagine you to be. You have to know that the life you have is completely yours.

Why is it that girls think boys will notice them if they're loud anyway.

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.

When you are genuinely being your true self, you need no words of explanation. You just are.

I wish for my child, for all our children, a world where they can be who they are and become their most loved, blessed, appreciated selves.

You have to help him see that if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in. He has to see how 'You shouldn't push even though you want to' isn't the same as 'You shouldn't wear a dress even though you want to.

But if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

No one will know who you're supposed to be," Ben warned. "No one ever does," said Claude.

Fitting in and being normal doesn't exist; not for a few years in the middle.