Quotes About Self-expression

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

One of the wonderful things about the actor's life is that's what we have the opportunity to do; we bring all these aspects of ourselves and of our personal lives into the work that we do.

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.

In my work and what I do, I am Queen of the Universe every day!

When I don't have to be at work, I want to be the real me - the comfortable me!

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

I don't wear lipstick when I'm not at work.

I don't demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.

I wouldn't do the 'Magic Hour' again, but I would do TV again. The 'Magic Hour' is not me. Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.

I don't wear ties to work. And I don't shave.

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.

Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.