Quotes About Self-expression

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'

I know who the Versace woman is, because I wear the clothes myself.

When I was about 4, my mum had a lime-green Versace jacket with massive shoulder pads, and I remember thinking, 'Why does her head look so small? Why is she doing that to herself?' But she loved it!

As I'm starting to grow up, and things are happening, I'm going to have to take off my pants, and I want to have on some attractive underwear. When it says Versace on your underwear, people will say, 'Man, he's fresh to his undies.'

I have to wear Eloquii to red carpet events where my friends are wearing custom Versace.

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.

I'd like to think I'm a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am.

I didn't want to be taken advantage of and burnt out in the industry. I worked with my family really closely, so I was able to get that respect in the industry. So now I feel that I can let my guard down. People know who I am; I can be myself. I can be more versatile, and I can wear what I want.

I never thought I would be cool enough to pull off a leather jacket. But then I found the perfect one, and it's so versatile!

My collection with Missguided is all about doing you - it was completely my process; I designed the whole thing and didn't let anybody make decisions for me. I'm creative in my own right, and I wanted the collection to reflect that. The clothes are very much based on my daily wear and are very versatile, as they can be dressed up or down.

I don't want to be anyone but me, but as a versatile as possible.

As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness.

As a stylist, my goal is to help people be the best version of themselves.

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.

Even though I'm a hairdresser and I love doing hair, I feel like I don't look like a groomer. When I think of how a groomer would look in relation to the first version of 'Queer Eye,' I feel like I don't fit in that box.

I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Stiles is a version of me that rarely exists in the real world. He's so confident and extroverted, and I'm much more restrained and internal.

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.