Quotes About Self-expression

One thing I'm not going to do is change up anything. Like, I'm always gonna be me.

I definitely still like writing one-liners, but I also think that I've changed a lot in that I've allowed myself freedom to grow.

I wrote a show - just as a joke, actually - and called it 'Bipolar, Bath, & Beyond,' just to bring some humor to it. I wasn't saying to myself that I'll 'come out' with it - I didn't think there was anything to 'come out' with - I was just writing another one-woman show about my life.

I did my one-woman show in order to show people what to do with me.

One creates oneself.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.

I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.

I just do my own thing, and my flower continues to blossom like one of those delicious Bloomin' Onions from Outback Steakhouse.

I don't want to change who I am or where I'm from and online I don't hesitate to delete and flex the block button.

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.

I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.

I'm always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.

I was very insecure growing up, and even though I'm not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling pretty and being insecure, is where my soul came from. And from early childhood, I let it free onstage.

I'm really fond of strength onstage and I'm not a small person. I'm 5'9'' and 190 lbs. - you can't really go on stage and be too shy.

Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.

I want to be able to deliver the kind of show that I want - to go onstage with my chin held up.

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.

I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body.